Rias was sleeping peacefully with a smile. The girl was at peace after what was a long and tiring night, she could finally rest her heart after hours of fear and worry. But suddenly, the music of an organ caught her attention which forced her to open her eyes, when she did she was very surprised to see that she was now in a gothic looking church adorned with statues, looms and crystals related to the devil.
"I can't believe it." The red haired girl turned around and saw Akeno, the black haired girl was sitting in front of everyone with her friends who watched everything with a smile while wearing formal clothes.
"And to think that I was going to have to wait years to see Rias and Benja's wedding, it's good that Rias said yes." Akeno said with a smile. When those words reached the red haired girl's ears, she was in shock since she never expected this.
"That home-wrecking bitch, that should be me!" Among the audience were Miia and the rest of the girls who watched everything with surprise while Akane tried to comfort her daughter.
"Wedding?" Rias looked at herself and was shocked. Instead of her pajamas or uniform, she was now wearing a gorgeous burgundy red dress with dark details.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" The girl turned around and saw that I was standing next to her.
"I remember when you asked me to make your wedding dress, I never felt so happy and so excited to create something so beautiful for my beloved Rias." I said smiling which impressed and at the same time, made Rias blush.
"Benja, is this real?" Rias felt like her heart was going to explode as she saw how I approached her with a soft smile.
"As real as you make it, my love." I slowly approached her causing the demon girl's heart to jump into her throat.
"How is this possible? Benja and I, married? He really proposed to me and he wants a life with me!?" Rias's heart was beating so hard at that moment that all I could hear were the rumbling sounds of her heart that felt like it was going to explode at any moment while she slowly approached me for the kiss.
Just before the kiss, Rias was surprised to feel something cold and sharp on her stomach, looking down she was horrified to see my vorpal sword buried in her belly while I leaned to her ear.
"Why did you do this?"
Suddenly what seemed to be a beautiful wedding fell into disgrace. The church we were in now seemed to be in ruins, everything was on fire, the demon statues were destroyed and the windows too. Rias heard screams and saw Akeno, Kiba and Koneko being pushed away by strange shadows.
"I thought we were family, I thought I was your friend." The red-haired girl turned to look at me only to be horrified and terrified.
My clothes were still the same, but now my hair was dark as night, my eyes empty with tears of blood falling down my cheeks.
"Liar." Suddenly Miia and the rest of the girls appeared next to me with the same appearance as me.
"Benja, wait." Rias let out a scream when my hand pierced her chest before pulling her heart out of her body. The red-haired girl watched in helplessness and panic as I squeezed her heart until it burst.
"Benja." Rias whispered weakly trying to raise her hand but she noticed me turn around before leaving with Miia and the others, leaving Rias at the altar.
"May hell damn you, Rias Gremory." I said coldly before disappearing in a dark flash.
The ground shook and suddenly hands came out of the ground and grabbed the red-haired girl. The hands began to tear Rias's clothes brutally and even tear off pieces of her skin and flesh as the girl screamed in pain, until the hands grabbed her face and with strong scratches they were destroying her face until only a red face of throbbing muscle remained.
Rias woke up with a scream of horror touching her face with labored breathing. She looked around and saw that she had fallen asleep on her desk.
"Everything, was it a dream?" The demon girl dropped into her seat holding her heart to try to calm it down. That dream had felt so real, as if I had really stabbed her and her flesh was torn. But then the girl remembered what she lived before the tragedy, a beautiful wedding where she was going to marry me and where everyone was there watching.
"Benja." Rias couldn't help but blush as she remembered how moments ago, she and I were close to a wedding kiss. But then she remembered what I told her and what happened.
The red-haired girl stood up and walked to a mirror to see her reflection. Rias now seemed to be split in two, between the voice of reason and her agony.
"You should let Benja know, maybe he'll understand." Rias's reflection spoke up, it was her inner voice of reason.
"Benja won't understand. He still believes that I saved his life and what I did was to protect him, he doesn't know that he's my servant, and it's better that way." The red-haired girl said seriously, looking at herself.
"The lie doesn't last forever, there will come a time when he will demand answers and maybe even use more violent methods to make us talk. This isn't about this shitty engagement anymore, it's about Benja, we shouldn't have dragged him into this in the first place." Rias said of reason looking at the redhead girl with her arms crossed.
"You're just a hallucination of mine because of the shitty nightmare I had. Benja is what I need to avoid any future marriage, so anyone who wants my hand will have to go over him first." The redhead girl said with a smile looking at her reflection.
"I'm the voice of your conscience that wants to prevent you from doing the biggest idiocy of all. Benja isn't a weapon, he's a living being that we drag along on our whim, he doesn't know everything about us, and what you want is for him to remain ignorant of our actions and become a dog waiting for his master's orders." Rias said with reason and anger in her voice but that didn't intimidate the red-haired girl.
"It's as it should be. Benja must remain under my command at all costs." Rias said before turning around with the intention of leaving.
"And what about Akeno and Sona?" The red-haired girl stopped dead when the voice of reason hit her with that question.
"Don't you care what they think? They're right, what we do is mean and selfish, controlling someone who has done nothing but help us and love us. Benja opened his heart to us despite the resentment he had towards us for turning him into a demon, and you abuse his kindness with charms and seductions." Rias clenched her fists tightly while her reflection continued speaking.
"You call yourself the owner of him, but you're only trying to fool yourself, because you know perfectly well that he will soon know everything, and once that happens, you're screwed!"
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
The red-haired girl couldn't take it anymore and broke the mirror in the room with a punch, shattering the glass into a thousand pieces that fell to the floor.
Rias slowly stood up, not caring in the slightest about her bloody hand. The girl looked at her hand for a moment, seeing the blood covering her fingers with bits of glass on her knuckles. She looked at this without caring before slowly removing the pieces of glass embedded in her flesh without showing any signs of pain.
"Benja will stay by my side, no matter what others think. He is my cute servant and he will do what I tell him, no matter what, he belongs to me, his soul belongs to me, and nothing will change that." Rias said with a cold tone devoid of emotion before wrapping her fist with some bandages.
"I have to go find Benja. I can't let Sona say even a single word." The red-haired girl began to walk to the exit, not noticing that Papi had observed everything and was in shock.
"Benja, that girl is bad, she can't be with him." The harpy girl took a few steps but as if a bolt of lightning struck her mind, she stopped dead.
"How did I get here? I have to get back to my room." Papi said before walking back to his room, forgetting what he had just seen and heard.
Right now I was flying to Metropolis, I took advantage of the fact that there was no one at the port so I could leave without anyone noticing me. I had to tell Reinhardt and Ana about the interrogation and they understood, the two veterans agreed to inform the school that I would not attend because I was supposedly sick.
I slowly glimpsed the city in the distance and activated the communicator.
"Here Benja, I'm near the city." I said while waiting for Reyes or Jack's answer.
"Roger that. We've got everything ready here." Reaper said seriously making me nod.
"I'll be there in five minutes. Are there any problems?" I asked curiously as I now found myself flying over the city. I felt happy to be back even if it was for a short time.
"At the moment Mittelt is nervous and tense, Mercy gave her some candy and some refreshments, on the other hand Kalawaana is emotionally unstable demanding to see the other girl, Valentine had to make use of sedatives and muscle relaxants before the interrogation with Hanzo begins." Hearing this worried me. I felt more confident that they were chained and had their magic sealed, but I hoped there wouldn't be any surprises.
"Understood. Keep Kalawaana on meds and under surveillance, I trust Hanzo can keep her at bay but we don't want to take any chances." I said before looking at our base.
"Roger that. I'll report this to Moira." With that said Reyes and I ended the call before I entered the headquarters.
"Benja, it's good to see you here again." I smiled as I saw Jack walking over to where I was.
"I like being back too Jack." I said as we both saluted before hugging each other.
"Follow me, it's this way." Soldier 76 said before starting to walk making me follow him.
"Jack. The girls aren't here right?" I asked nervously. I wouldn't mind seeing them but I wasn't ready to tell them the truth yet.
"No, they are now at Monster High. Reyes made sure that the girls you brought were not seen by anyone other than authorized Overwatch personnel like him, me, Winston, and Black Dahlia." The man said seriously as he looked at me.
"It's okay, I just hope that they remain peaceful while I ask questions." I said as the two of us arrived at the interrogation room.
"Reyes told me everything." Just as I was about to grab the doorknob to enter the room, I was stopped by Jack's words that left me petrified.
"How much do you know?" I asked with my heart in my throat and without turning around. I didn't know if I would be able to bear looking Soldier 76 in the eyes, I wouldn't know if he was worried, angry or disappointed in me.
"Enough to have wanted to send a squad to get you out of Kuou and abandon this mission." Jack said seriously making me sigh.
"Does everyone know?" I asked nervously looking the soldier in the eyes, I felt happy to see him shake his head.
"No, they don't know, yet." The man approached me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Benja, you should have told us this." The soldier said seriously making me sigh.
"I know. But how was I supposed to say it? Jack, I'm really scared, I don't know what will happen once everyone finds out, I don't know if they'll even let me stay in Metropolis or even be able to go back to Monster High, I don't even know how they'll see me!" Slowly panic came to my mind and the walls began to become covered in ice from desperation.
"Benja!" I was surprised when Jack held my arms firmly making me lower my head.
"Look at me, look me in the eyes." I was scared, I didn't want to do it, but I slowly forced myself to look into the eyes of the man in front of me.
"Let's solve this. First finish the interrogation, then I'll tell you what you're going to do, okay? I'm not mad at you, it makes me feel good that you're in good shape and you've changed us in no way. Now you must be calm and serious, remember why you're doing this." Jack said seriously but at the same time calmly making me take a deep breath before nodding.
"Yes, thank you Jack." I said with a small smile, a gesture that the soldier returned.
"Now get in there, the faster we finish this the better so that your facade in Kuou doesn't fall apart." I nodded before entering the room while the soldier went to another room where Winston, Black Dahlia and Reyes were.
"How is Benja, Bebe?" The woman asked curiously, looking at Jack as the man sat down in a chair.
"At least he's calm for now, but bringing up this subject is like trying to defuse a bomb, and Benja is practically an emotional bomb." The man said with some annoyance and concern in his voice.
"He's about to start." Reyes spoke quickly in an attempt to change the subject. Something that worked because now the eyes were on my interrogation with Mittelt.
The moment I sat down in the interrogation room I could see that Mittelt was terrified and nervous, maybe it was because she had witnessed me kill Dohnaseek and maybe it was because of that. I felt a little bad looking at the girl, she and Kalawaana were just Kokabiel's puppets, I just hoped I could help if the interrogation went according to plan.
"Mittelt, stay calm. Look, I know we got off on the wrong foot, and that you're really scared right now. But I need you to relax, the faster you answer my questions and the more honest you are the better for you. If you help me, I'll help you, understand?" I asked looking at the girl calmly. Mittelt seemed to stop shaking before taking a deep breath and nodding nervously.
"Okay." I took a deep breath as well before looking at the girl.
"Mittelt. Do you know why you're here?" The fallen angel girl seemed to be afraid to speak but she nodded before speaking with fear in her voice.
"Because we have killed many people." Mittelt said with difficulty making me nod before opening a document on the table.
"According to the data we managed to gather during our stay in Kuou, a total of 1231 people disappeared under strange circumstances. Most of the victims were students from the many academies in the city, but especially in Kuou Academy where at least 912 young people disappeared, among them are students from second to first year of high school." I said seriously before closing the file.
"Mittelt, is that true?" The girl looked at me with tears due to fear and terror.
"Mittelt, I know this is hard to face."
"No, you don't understand. If I speak of what I know regarding this, Kokabiel will kill me and kill Kalawaana." Said the fallen angel girl with enormous terror in her voice making me shut up.
"Mittelt. Kokabiel is the one who has been forcing them to kill them but we need to know why. Were they all deserters? People who knew too much about them? Or was it for pleasure?" I asked seriously looking at the girl who remained silent wiping her tears.
"Kokabiel hates everything related to human life. After the war, he demanded that Azazel take the opportunity to catch the other factions off guard, but he refused firmly and firmly. When Azazel left and Kokabiel took power, he decided to take everything into his own hands, he wanted to make sure that all human life was eradicated because humans are one of the last creations of the biblical god before dying in that war, so Kokabiel considers every human being as a plague, a parasite that must be eradicated from the root." Mittelt said with fear in his voice making me serious.
"Why does Kokabiel want to do this? What does he want to achieve by killing all humans on Earth?" I asked seriously. On the other side, Jack, Reyes, Black Dahlia and Winston listened attentively.
"A new war." Hearing this left us in shock and at the same time more serious than ever upon hearing such a statement.
"Continue." I said seriously looking at the girl, she gulped before speaking in fear.
"Kokabiel wants to reclaim the land, and to do so, he decided to do it in a discreet way. First he started with a plan in which we would steal the identities of many people in Kuou, as that city is ignored by heaven and the demons were not yet fully recovered to be able to fight, Kokabiel decided to take the entire city to make it his base of operations. But he knew that we would not make much progress without two key elements, two Sacred Gear that he needed to become unstoppable." Mittelt said looking at me nervously making me nod.
"Issei's and Asia's Sacred Gear." The girl nodded shyly before speaking again.
"The goal was to first take the Sacred Gear from that perverted boy, that way he would obtain greater power, while Raynare only wanted the power of that nun girl for herself, she was obsessed with being able to earn Kokabiel's respect so that she would be seen as more than an inferior angel." Mittelt wrinkled his face in disgust as he remembered the fallen angel girl.
"That bitch was always a cocksucker for that damn sadistic son of a bitch." The blonde girl said with venom in her voice making me nod.
"So this is how you guys work. You kill people to steal their identities and then go unnoticed by stealing their bodies and appearances, a form of camouflage to avoid being discovered by heaven, once the population of that city is changed to one where the fallen angels live on earth, they will not hesitate to start a war, only this time it will be discreet since you choose to kill stealthily and erase people's minds to avoid misunderstandings." I said seriously looking at the girl.
"Umm, you're wrong about something." I looked at Mittelt, she didn't seem to mock, but instead raised her hand shyly.
"We fallen angels do not have the ability to erase the human mind." Hearing this surprised me but at the same time made me more serious.
"Explain yourself." I said seriously making the girl nod.
"When studying spells, incantations, or anything related to magic, angels must first take into account that there are forbidden spells, magic that the biblical creator himself prohibited by considering these spells impure for heaven itself." Mittelt looked at the iron gloves in which his hands were hidden.
"Many of us were curious, but one day, Michael told us that these spells were forbidden and that under no circumstances should they be used or heard of, because if you were caught using any dark magic spell or one that went against the laws of heaven, you could be punished, in milder cases you had to apologize and swear not to talk about the subject, and in worse cases, you were banished from heaven for practicing such spells. When we were banished from heaven, we still had a doubt, and that is that we wondered if God had something to do with the creation of those spells, but it was not so." Mittelt took a deep breath before continuing.
"Those spells came from Hell itself, they are spells used by demons because the four great Satans of that time were responsible for the creation of those spells. The reason why the use of those abilities was prohibited in Heaven, is because Michael along with God and other Seraphim, wanted to discover a way to counteract the effects of those spells."
I froze upon hearing this. I didn't want to believe it, I refused to believe it. The fallen angels when I met them demonstrated that they used magic in a precise manner, surely keeping what they trained during their years in heaven. But now finding out here, and now, that they didn't know how to use spells capable of erasing minds and that the ones responsible were the demons, was something I couldn't accept.
"You can't be serious." I said clenching my fists tightly looking at Mittelt.
"I'm serious. The only thing we can do once we finish the job is to take care of erasing all the data and information that they store in their cell phones to avoid failures, and we make up convincing stories so as not to raise suspicions."
"Don't lie to me!" The girl fell to the ground, screaming in terror, seeing that I stood up while an aura of fire covered me which scared her even more and made her cry out of fear.
"I swear, I swear! Please don't hurt me, I swear, believe me!" The girl screamed with tears hugging her knees. Slowly the fire in me disappeared and I stared at the girl.
"Reyes. Is she lying?" I asked, looking at the glass in the room.
"The sensors indicate that her pulse has been normal at all times and she showed no body movement that indicates signs of deception. She is telling the truth." When I heard that over the speakers I felt my heart sink and my blood pressure suddenly drop as if I was lacking sugar in my blood. I looked at Mittelt and felt terrible seeing her crying in panic and terror at seeing my outburst of anger.
"The session is over. Take Mittelt back to her cell with Kalawaana, make sure they eat whatever they want for their cooperation." I said looking at the girl on the floor.
"Understood, Benja. You may leave." When I heard Jack's words I looked for a moment at the angel girl fallen on the floor, as much as I wanted to speak to apologize, I felt a knot that did not let me speak. I turned and left the room without saying another word.
"Benja." I turned to see Winston, the gorilla scientist left the room to look at me with concern.
"Is everything okay?" the gorilla asked worriedly. Internally I wanted to burst into tears and tell him everything once and for all, but I just nodded with a weak and fragile smile.
"I'm fine, it's just that. Maybe I got carried away, I met many fallen angels in Kuou who wanted to kill me, I think I still hold a grudge against them. I'm so sorry." I said embarrassed looking at the gorilla scientist.
"It's okay. But try to stay calm next time, okay?" Winston asked with a smile making me smile shyly.
"Yes, I promise to be more careful." The gorilla nodded at what I said with a smile.
"Good. I have to go back to the interrogation room, we have to make sure that Hanzo and the other fallen angel don't start a fight." While Winston returned to the room, I saw how Mittelt was taken to her cell, my eyes were fixed on her and everything she told me.
I didn't want to believe it, I refused to believe that devils had those powers, but Mittlet didn't lie to me, Reyes had confirmed to me that she hadn't lied in the slightest. I didn't know what to think or what to say about it, the only devil families were the Gremory family and the Sitri family, because if there was one thing I couldn't be wrong about, it was that the renegade devils wouldn't need a mind-wipe spell since they lure their victims into the trap, and don't come out of hiding.
I slowly began to walk through the base with a lost look trying to process everything, although Kokabiel's plans were very worrying and serious, I was still in shock at the thought that maybe Rias and the others were involved in something serious.
I kept walking until I stopped in front of Diana's room.
"I need to know." I whispered before entering the room, there was something inside, something I needed very urgently.
I entered the room and began to search through Diana's things until I found something, an object that would help me know the truth or ruin everything.
"Benja." I was startled and turned to see Jack and Reyes.
"Jack, Reyes. I was." I got nervous not knowing what to say while the two adults were calm.
"Benja, we have to tell you something regarding the mission." Jack said with some seriousness calling my attention.
"The data that you, Ana and Reinhardt found is shocking, and after this interrogation, we believe that it is more than enough to end the mission." Reye said seriously leaving me surprised and more nervous than ever.
"But, what will happen to Mittelt and Kalawaana?" I asked with doubt looking at the two adults.
"They will be in our custody before being brought before a jury where their sentence will be determined. They may be accomplices who did everything under threat, but that doesn't save them from their actions. Hopefully, what they told us will be enough to perhaps give them a fair sentence." Soldier 76 said, looking at me with his arms crossed.
I was speechless, I didn't know what to say but now I was scared. Now with the mission over, I would have to tell everyone the truth and especially introduce them to Miia and the other girls. Everything that was now in my hands was huge and I didn't know if everyone could handle such a huge weight.
"Benja." I raised my head to see Jack and Reyes approaching me.
"I know you're scared to tell everyone the truth, but believe us it's better to tell them now instead of them finding out, okay?" Reaper asked while Soldier 76 put a hand on my shoulder.
"I know you'll make the right decision, Benja. We trust you'll do the right thing." Listening to what both veterans said made me relax a little more and I nodded with a small smile.
"Yeah, okay, thank you very much." I said looking at the two men, who smiled back at me.
"If it helps at all. You can take the rest of the day off to think about what you have to tell the others tomorrow." Reyes said with a smile making me nod.
"That would be the best, thanks." I said smiling feeling a little better now.
"Alright. We'll go discuss this with Akande and the others, we'll inform Reinhardt and Ana about this, go back to Kuou, I'll talk to Olivia and tell her to prepare some seats for you on the next flight to Metropolis." Jack said with a smile.
"Yes, I'll see you all tomorrow." The two men nodded at what I said before leaving the room.
Once I was left alone I slowly stopped smiling before sighing, there would be a lot of things to explain, but then I remembered Rias and the others. I didn't know how the red-haired girl was going to react when I told her that I had to go and that Asia would be leaving with me, but then I remembered something, the teleportation circles.
"Perhaps, I can tell everyone that Rias might come to ask for help or visit us." I said with a small smile. Maybe it could work.
"I'd better go, I've got a long trip to Kuou ahead of me." I left Diana's room to head for the exit. I was going to take advantage of the trip to choose my words for Rias, something would occur to me to talk to the others about.
The students of Kuou Academy had been surprised today and in a worse way. Rias Gremory, the kindest, kindest, and most cheerful girl in the academy, was now a shell of her former self. The red-haired girl remained distant from the students throughout the day, acting cold towards Sona, something that the glasses-wearing girl returned to her. The boys stayed away from Rias, she gave off such a cold aura that it was scary to approach her, everyone wondered what had happened to Rias and why she was so upset with everyone as if every student in the academy had wished the worst on her.
When classes came to an end. Rias was now in the occult club with a throbbing vein, she was now gathered with her other servants, the girl was hoping to be able to talk to everyone but that vanished when Koneko accused Issei of spying in the locker room with his friends.
"Issei." Rias was on the verge of losing her patience while the brown-haired boy was tense.
"I apologize. They dragged me to the locker in the first place, me!" Issei tried to defend himself but then everyone heard the red-haired girl hitting her desk angrily.
"I don't care! Don't try to fool me, Issei Hyoudou, you and your friends always spend their time spying on the girls' bathroom so I didn't try to pretend to be innocent when it was literally your fault!" Everyone was speechless, no one expected Rias to explode like that. They knew the demon girl was severe and demanding when it came to reprimanding someone, but they never saw her so upset.
"I'm sorry for my delay." Suddenly everyone turned to see me enter the room with a shy smile.
"Look who deigned to appear, you've been missing all day, Benjamin." Rias said annoyed looking at me making me laugh nervously.
"I'm sorry, it's just that, I didn't feel well enough to attend class, my parents had to tell the teachers that I wouldn't be here." I said laughing looking at everyone before sighing to calm myself. It was time to say it.
"Guys, there's something very important I want to tell you." Everyone seemed curious to hear what I said while I was relaxing as best as possible.
"This might be my last day in Kuou." When I said that it was like a big blow to everyone, but especially to Rias who couldn't believe it.
"Benja, are you serious?" Kiba asked surprised making me nod.
"My parents have been talking to me, and they said that they finally got the job offer they wanted in our hometown. No more trips, no more schools abroad, just the four of us back home." I said looking at the blonde boy but everyone noticed something.
"The four of us? But there are three of you." Koneko said but she noticed me looking at Asia.
"Asia will come with us on our trip to Germany. I talked to my parents and they agreed to let her come with us. I know that maybe I should have made this decision by talking to all of you, but since she lives with us then I have to make the decision. I'm also doing this for her safety. I don't know if more fallen angels are after her. It's not that I don't trust you all, but I don't want to risk leaving Asia alone." I said looking at everyone while the blonde girl was surprised and happy at the same time.
"Do you really have to go?" Akeno asked with some sadness and concern looking at me.
"I wish it wasn't like that, but eventually my parents will be home with their families. But, you have the magic circles, right? You can come and go as much as you want, you'll always be welcome." I said smiling looking at everyone.
"We're glad to hear that, Benja." Kiba said with a smile looking at me.
"We promise we'll always come visit you." Akeno said with a slight smile making me nod.
"Good. Now I have to talk to Miia and the other girls, I'll try to do it as quickly as possible before we go out to have fun. I don't want to leave here empty-handed." I said smiling making Rias' friends laugh.
"Okay, we'll try to finish as soon as possible." Akeno said with a smile making me nod.
"Good, see you all later." I left the room to go see Miia and the others leaving everyone at the club.
"It's sad to see Benja leaving." Kiba said looking at the door where I left.
"I'm glad." Issei said without much interest.
"At least he allows us to go visit him, right, Rias?" Akeno asked with a smile looking at her friend but the white haired girl remained silent.
Rias had a lost look, her eyes were fixed on where I was moments ago, which worried and at the same time made Akeno nervous due to the uncomfortable and tense air that the red-haired girl gave off.
"Umm, everyone, it would be better to go out and finish our tasks. Rias has a lot of things to do so it would be better to leave her alone." The black-haired girl said looking at everyone. Kiba and Koneko seemed to notice the aura that Rias gave off, making Akeno's intentions clear.
"Yes, that's right. Umm, we're leaving now." The blond boy said with some concern. Everyone left the room, leaving the red-haired girl behind.
Rias couldn't believe what she just heard. I was going to leave the city with Asia, the red-haired girl clenched her fists with such great anger that she was going to tear her apart at any moment.
"That bastard, he comes here after hours in which he left me alone, and he tells me that he's leaving the city!?" Slowly Rias' anger began to be suppressed with great difficulty as she tried to gain control.
"Calm down, Rias. Calm down, he said that we can visit him, besides, there are still two months left for the engagement, maybe there is still a chance." The girl smiled to herself, not everything was lost, there was still a lot of time left and that would help a lot. Or so, was what she thought.
Suddenly a white magic circle caught her attention in a great way, Rias' eyes widened in surprise because she did not expect this.
"Sirzechs?" The girl wondered to herself thinking that maybe her brother had come to visit but she noticed that instead of her brother, there was the white-haired woman who was there during her brother's last visit.
"Grayfia, what an unexpected visitor. My brother is on his way?" Rias asked with a soft smile looking at the woman.
"Indeed, Miss Rias. Your brother sent me to talk to you." When the red-haired girl heard that she seemed intrigued, but something must not be right, a chill ran down her spine as a sign that something bad was happening. That scared her and made her uncomfortable.
"What's wrong, Grayfia?" Rias asked curiously looking at the white-haired girl.
"A few days ago, a meeting was held in which your parents and brother had a talk with the Phoenix family. According to what Mr. Sirzechs told me, that meeting has to do with the marriage you have with the knight Riser Phoenix." The demon girl felt a new pain in her neck waiting for good news. That the wedding had been delayed or was going to be postponed.
"The lord and lady of the Pheonix house demanded that the wedding be brought forward because the wedding was already postponed for too long." Grayfia said seriously. That was a hard blow to Rias' stomach.
"When will it be?" That question was like a knife scraping Rias' throat because she never wanted to talk about the subject.
"In two days." The red-haired girl's heart shattered like porcelain against the floor. Two days, those words echoed in her subconscious which only worsened Rias' mood.
"Two days. Two days!?" Rias shouted furiously hitting her table.
"Please, Miss Rias, refrain from treating me like that. I came here personally to give you this news, nothing more." Grayfia said looking at the red-haired girl who was touching her hair as if she was going to tear it out.
"This can't be happening, there must be a mistake, isn't it!" Rias shouted on the verge of madness looking at Grayfia, the other woman remained calm and serene looking at the red-haired girl sternly.
"Miss Rias. I ask you to calm down and face what is coming. This marriage was postponed for a long time, and you know full well that this day will come sooner or later. Your parents are not doing this for anyone's benefit, but because time is up and the Phoenix family can't wait any longer." Grayfia's words silenced the red-haired girl as she fell into her seat in silence.
"I'll talk to your brother if that's what you want me to do, but that's all I'll say." The woman said as a magic circle began to appear beneath her.
"I advise you to think about what you'll do. I'll come back later." With that said, Grayfia left the room, leaving behind a Rias who almost seemed on the verge of a mental breakdown.
How could fate be so cruel to her? I was leaving the city with Asia, the wedding was brought forward, no one supported her or even understood what she was going through. This talk was like the last thread to break in Rias's mind who was now alone in the room with no one to listen to her, not even a shoulder to cry on. The tears were quick to come and the girl searched for a handkerchief in her drawers, she felt something sauve as she put her hand in and the moment she took her hand out, she could see the bandana I made for her.
"Benja." The demon girl brought that bandana to her chest and a smile slowly appeared on her face remembering our times together and how despite the differences, she and I remained good and a good friendship.
"I won't let you go. I will make you stay with me, no matter the price." Rias whispered to herself with her smile growing bigger.
"Honey! You don't know how happy this makes me, to meet your home, your friends, I can't wait to meet my future brothers-in-law!" Miia was screaming in happiness while she was choking me with her tail.
"Once I win your parents' hearts, I can't wait until we can get married and live a beautiful life together!" Suddenly the girl was pulled by the ear by Akane.
"Miia, you're still young to get married. I'll let you and Benja be boyfriend and girlfriend, but that'll be all!" The girl's mother shouted sternly while everyone was putting away the clothes I made for each of them.
"It must be hard having to leave this town." Cerea said looking at me with some sadness while I was catching my breath.
"Not at all. My parents are happy to be back, and once we get back, there will be a lot to do." I said with a nervous smile. I still didn't choose the right words to be able to explain everything to the others.
"As long as we stay away from these filthy demons, the better." Charlotte said seriously, looking at me.
"This is exciting, I wonder what will be in our new home." Mero said with a smile looking at me making me smile nervously.
"There are a lot of things, Mero. A lot of things." I said with a shy smile before seeing that Papi was distracted.
"Papi, is everything okay?" The harpy girl seemed to come out of a trance before looking at me.
"This morning I was in the hallways but I forgot why I went, I'm trying to remember what I was doing or what I was going to do." The blue-haired girl said looking at me with some confusion. While Fei laughed shyly.
"Excuse my daughter, it's not her fault, in fact I also have the same problem as her. Harpies may be good at flying and combat, but we are terrible at remembering things, it often happens that sometimes Papi and I forget something we were doing just three seconds ago." Papi's mother said, embarrassed with a shy smile.
"Papi, weren't you trying to go to the bathroom?" Manako asked but the harpy girl shook her head.
"No, I got up to get some water, but then I stopped when I heard something. But I don't remember what happened after that." Papi said looking at everyone. That caught our attention a lot.
"It's strange, Akeno was with me this morning before I left home." I said remembering the black haired girl. But then I fell silent remembering how she behaved moments before I left, acting somewhat depressed and worried.
"Now that I think about it. Akeno acted strangely this morning, she seemed depressed, I've never seen her so sad in the time I was here." I said looking at everyone with doubt and confusion remembering this morning.
"She's never this sad, usually she's smiling and looks happy. Today was different." The girls heard this with curiosity and looked at each other.
"Why would that have happened?" Manako asked curiously looking at me.
"I don't know, but I'll ask her when we go out to have fun. Today I want to spend my last night with everyone else before we leave Kuou." I said looking at the girls but then Miia wrapped her tail around my body possessively.
"I won't let you go, to be with other girls other than me!" The Lamia girl screamed possessively looking at me but then Centorea separated us with difficulty.
"Relax a little, silly snake. Benja will just hang out with his friends before he goes home with us." Cerea said seriously while Miia pouted.
"Fine, but when we get there, my dear will be all mine!" Miia yelled with a pout looking at me. Suddenly I felt a huge chill and it was because Leechi caressed my back with his tentacles.
"I can't wait to taste your blood again either, sweetheart." The leech girl said with a smile before being pushed away by Miia, who wrapped her tail around me before pulling me into her arms.
"Not a chance, blood sucking bitch. If you touch a hair on his head, I'll kill you, he's mine, my world and my life!" The Lamia girl turned to look at me but was surprised to see that there was a pillow instead.
"Don't forget our debt, cutie." Everyone turned around and saw Rachnera, the spider girl had me wrapped in a web but the way it was done was peculiar and at the same time embarrassing. The spider girl had used a bondage technique on me.
"You and I have a lot to talk about once we get home, and your parents will know that their son is a very bad boy." Rachnera pulled on a rope making me scream with my face red with embarrassment.
"Yes, yes, I got it, I got it, please put me down now, I don't want Suu and Daddy to see this!" I yelled nervously looking at the spider girl who showed me a mocking smile before putting me down.
"Mommy, why are you covering my eyes?" I felt happy to see that Fei was covering Daddy and Suu's eyes using her wings.
"Because, Mommy just wanted to give them a hug." The woman said with a shy smile looking at me while I nodded.
"Don't worry Benja, we'll get everything ready for the trip tomorrow." Yukio said with an expressionless face making me smile.
"Thank you, girls. I trust that everyone will be fine, we'll see you soon." Just as I was about to leave, Miia gave me a fierce kiss which caused me to turn red in embarrassment at how unexpected it was.
"So you don't forget who's in charge." The Lamia girl said in a flirtatious tone before being pulled by her ear by Akane.
"You're still too young to be flirting like that, Miia." The adult woman said with a serious face looking at her daughter.
"Mommy, he's my darling, I can't let any bitch jump on him!" We all laughed a little awkwardly and shyly watching the scene.
After leaving the girls, I went to school to find Kiba, Akeno, Asia, Koneko, and Rias for our day together. Once I arrived, I saw only the three girls and the blonde boy, there was no sign of Rias anywhere.
"Benja, I'm glad you came." Kiba said with a smile as I joined the group.
"I'm glad to see you. Rias isn't coming?" I asked curiously looking around hoping to see the redheaded girl.
"No, actually, when we went to look for her she wasn't in her classroom, not even in the club." Koneko said with her emotionless face which surprised and worried me.
"I just hope she's not upset." I said worried. I didn't know if she would take the idea of Asia and I leaving the country well, but then I saw Akeno put a hand on my shoulder with a small smile.
"Let's not worry, she probably had something to do and couldn't come, but don't worry, I'll take pictures and send them to her so she can see that we're okay." I smiled at Akeno's idea and nodded.
"Sounds good. Come on, the day is almost over and I have a lot of plans." I said smiling making the group smile.
"This will be fun." Kiba said with a smile as the five of us left the school to start having fun.
"Where are we going?" Asia asked curiously making me laugh.
"There's a lot to do. Karaoke, arcades, the cinema, the ice cream shop, the park. We have a lot to do today." I said smiling looking at everyone.
"Wow, wow, Benja. You really thought of everything." Akeno said with a smile making me laugh.
"Well. I have to plan the best for great friends who are part of my family, come on!" I shouted happily before starting to run making Kiba and Asia laugh.
"Benja, wait for us!" The two blondes started to run after me laughing.
"This will be exciting, don't you think, Akeno?" Koneko turned around to see the black-haired girl who seemed to be coming out of a trance.
"Huh? Oh yeah, very funny. Umm, go ahead, I'll follow." The white-haired girl stared at Akeno before starting to follow Kiba, Asia, and Mi.
Akeno's smile faded and she grabbed her phone before looking at Rias's number, her heart pounding and her hands sweating, she called the number hoping the red-haired girl would pick up.
"This is Rias Gremory, I'm busy at the moment. Please leave your message after the tone." Akeno sighed bitterly as the girl's answering machine picked up the phone.
"Umm, Hi Rias, it's me, Akeno. The guys and I went out to have some fun with Benja before he leaves, I'll send you pictures. I hope you're okay, don't take the talk we had this morning personally, okay? Umm, take care." The black-haired girl said before ending the call with a bitter taste in her mouth.
"Akeno." The girl raised her head and saw that I had returned.
"Oh, sorry Benja, I think I got left behind." Akeno said with a shy smile making me laugh a little.
"Okay, let's go, there's a lot to do." I said before taking her hand and then we ran away making the girl laugh as she followed my step.
Today was a memorable day. Asia, Akeno, Kiba, Koneko and I were going to every place in the city to have fun. At the arcade Kiba showed off his good aim in shooting games with me, Koneko suppressed all her strength for a mallet game and Akeno and Asia were having fun playing a fighting game before we all headed to a small booth so we could take pictures of the five of us together.
After playing video games we went to eat ice cream at a park to relax where Akeno took a picture of us at the fountain eating together laughing.
We went to Karaoke where I was surprised to hear Asia and Akano singing, Kiba and I also did well while Koneko just sat there watching everything with a smile, the picture Akeno took was one where we were all trying to make the white haired girl sing.
When we left Karaoke, our next destination was to see a movie at the cinema. Today they were showing a horror movie, the five of us couldn't stop laughing seeing so many stereotypes related to demons, Akeno took a photo again, this time of everyone with 3-D glasses and popcorn each.
When the movie ended we headed to a fast food restaurant. Our stomachs almost exploded when we saw Asia fighting against the cheese on a pizza, that reminded me a lot of when Diana tried a pizza for the first time on her first day in Metropolis. Akeno did not miss the opportunity to take a picture of the blonde girl wrapped in cheese while the four of us laughed.
When we left the restaurant we were laughing a little because of all the fun we had but when I turned around I could see that Akeno was staring at her phone with concern. It worried me a lot to see this, because every time we finished doing something, the black-haired girl looked sadly and fearfully at her phone after sending the photos to Rias.
"Akeno." The girl came out of her trance and saw how I approached her with concern.
"Benja, me." She sighed before looking at her phone.
"Rias didn't read any of my messages, I'm worried." Hearing this worried me and I looked at her cell phone, indeed, the red-haired girl had not even seen the photos that were sent.
"I'm starting to get worried, she's never this distant. I wonder if she's okay." Akeno said worriedly looking at me. We both shared the same concern.
"I better call her." I said before calling Rias. I was really worried about not hearing from her, we had so much fun that we practically forgot about her.
"Hello?" Akeno and I sighed in relief when Rias's voice came over my phone.
"Rias, where the hell did you go? I've been texting you all day." The black-haired girl said with some annoyance in her voice looking at my phone.
"Really? I didn't notice, I think I left my phone on the desk at the club, sorry Akeno, I didn't mean to scare you." The red-haired girl on the other side said. Although we couldn't see her, she sounded regretful.
"The important thing is that you're okay, Rias. But don't scare us like that again." I said seriously looking at my phone.
"It's okay, I promise. I'm really sorry." Rias said from the other side making us smile a little.
"Guys, come on!" Akeno and I raised our heads to see Kiba who was on a crepe truck with Koneko and Asia.
"See you later, Rias. I'll bring you a crepe later." Akeno said with a smile as she looked at the crepe stand.
"Sounds good, see you guys later." Rias said on the other end in a calm tone.
"Rias, about this morning." I tried to speak but the girl ended the call which surprised me.
"Maybe she hung up by mistake." I said looking at my phone for a moment in worry. I was scared to think that she was mad at me.
"Ben-Senpai. Hurry up!" Koneko shouted from the food stand making me laugh.
"I'm coming!" I shouted before running to the crepe stand.
The night finally came. As I walked through the streets, I was looking at pictures that Akeno uploaded to my phone. I smiled happily, this was a great way to distract my mind from what happened today at the interrogation, now I was walking home with a relaxed smile.
"What a nice night, I wish it would never end." I said smiling. Now I had to go home to pack things with Reinhardt and Ana. Asia was supposed to come with me but Rias had called to tell us that the girl had a contract that was on the other side of the city, Koneko, Kiba and Akeno offered to take her while I assured the blonde girl that I would keep her things before we left tomorrow.
"I wonder how Asia is doing." I asked myself. What could this errand be that Rias seemed very worried about.
"I just hope it's nothing serious." I said as I walked to the entrance of the apartment but a scent reached my nose, a scent that made me stop dead before even grabbing the door handle to enter.
"That aroma. It's not something Reinhardt or Ana would cook." I said before slowly entering the house. I was wondering if maybe it was one of the girls who had come to visit me, once I left the things at the entrance I went to the kitchen and what I saw surprised me a lot.
Rias was there, wearing school clothes and an apron, the girl was humming a song while she was stirring with the ladle what seemed to be a stew, I looked at the table and saw that there was a large amount of food that left me shocked.
"Rias?" The girl was surprised and turned around to look at me with a smile.
"Benja, I'm glad you came." The demon girl said with a smile looking at me.
"Rias, did you cook this?" I asked looking at the food on the table making the girl laugh.
"Yeah, I'm really sorry, I was just passing by and thought I'd come say hello, I found the door open, sorry for coming in without permission." Rias said with a smile as she approached me.
"That's a lot of food, were you cooking all day?" I asked surprised looking at the redheaded girl as she laughed.
"I'm so sorry. It's just that hearing that you're leaving is painful news. We haven't spent much time together but I've grown very fond of you. It hurts me to see one of my dear friends leave the country, and even if you let us visit you, it's still painful news for me." Hearing what Rias said made me sad. She was a kind and sweet girl, I was also going to miss her like the others.
"I'm so sorry Rias, I wish I could stay, but I have to go back. There are many things to do." I said with concern making the girl nod.
"I know. And that's why I was cooking all afternoon, your parents were very kind to lend me their kitchen so we could have dinner together." Rias said with a smile leaving me surprised.
"Really? But, where could they have gone?" I asked with doubt. Although her intention was good, the house was full of Overwatch artifacts that could not be discovered by anyone.
"They said they were going to a restaurant for dinner, but don't worry, they're fine. Look what I brought." As Rias walked to the kitchen, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, my senses telling me that something wasn't right.
"Look." I saw Rias come back with a bottle of wine, I was very surprised by this since I didn't expect her to bring wine.
"Where did you get this from?" I asked looking at the bottle. The label had a black design with gold and scarlet red letters.
"It's a wine that my father brought once when he came to visit, it's an exclusive wine from hell." Rias said before pouring two glasses of wine.
"This wine is made from the finest grapes grown by a family friend of ours, and I can assure you that a wine like this has no equal." The red-haired girl said before taking a sip from her glass of wine while I looked at mine.
"Come, Benja. Let's eat, please sit." The girl sat in front of me while I did the same although with hesitation.
"Come on Benja, don't be shy and eat, I really worked hard all day for you." Rias said with a smile before pouring rice and some curry on her plate. Look at the many dishes on the table and grab some white rice with curry and miso soup.
When I tasted the food I didn't feel anything out of place. The seasonings, the vegetables, the meat, everything was in its place as it should be, I started to let my guard down believing that maybe it was just my imagination trying to joke with me while Rias and I ate dinner.
"Benja, can I ask you a question?" When I was about to put a spoon with curry and rice in my mouth, I stopped to look at Rias.
"Yes, what's wrong?" I asked before putting the spoon down.
"In your stories you told me. You said that you have many girls as your girlfriends, isn't that true? Tell me, how is your relationship with them?" Hearing that left me surprised since I didn't expect her to ask me about the girls in Metropolis.
"Well. They like me the way I am, we have a lot of fun doing pranks, tea parties, training, sometimes we go to rehearse songs, train music."
"No, no, Benja. I think I didn't explain myself well." Rias interrupted me when I started talking about the things I did with the girls, that caught my attention more.
"I meant, if you two are more intimate. You know, couples in love can be, quite naughty." Rias said looking at me with a smile making me blush and feel somewhat uncomfortable.
"Well. Girls like to flirt and play pranks on me like sitting on my lap, putting their breasts in my face, or sleeping with me in the same bed." I said embarrassed making the redhead girl laugh.
"I guess I'm not explaining myself well." The girl sat a little firmer in her chair before staring at me.
"You and your girls, did you have sex?" When I heard that question I turned red in embarrassment and more uncomfortable than before.
"No. They and I, agreed to wait until we get married." I said nervously which surprised the redhead girl.
"So long? Wow, Benja. That means you're a virgin, you're surrounded by many girls but you've never touched them, that's impressive." The demon girl said with a smile. But that was enough for me, I stood up embarrassed.
"I'll go get some air." Just as I was about to leave the table, Rias stopped me by taking my hand.
"Benja wait. Sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, it's just that." When I turned around, Rias looked embarrassed and tearful.
"I really don't want you to go. You're my best friend and I'm really worried that one day you'll forget me. In the war, I lost a lot of friends and I don't want to lose you, that's why I'm so nervous and so scared. I can't think straight, but I know that at some point, you'll walk out that door never to come back." Rias said with tears looking into my eyes before hugging me making me accept the hug.
"Rias. I'm so sorry, I don't want to go either, I'd really like to stay with all of you or maybe even take you with me to our new home, but I can't. I don't know if your parents would let you, Koneko, Kiba or Akeno come with me to Germany." I pulled away to look Rias in the eyes with a smile.
"But I will never forget you. You are my best friends, my family, you are a part of my life, it is impossible for me to forget the people I became fond of and who helped me accept myself as a devil, and although I still have a way to go with that, it makes me feel good to have friends who support me." I said looking at Rias with a smile in my eyes. The girl returned the same smile as she wiped her tears.
"Benja. You are the sweetest and kindest person I had the chance to meet, now I understand why your girls love you, you are someone pure, with good feelings and you care about others. You will definitely be a good husband." Hearing this made me blush a lot as I saw Rias hold her wine glass with a smile.
"For our friendship." The girl said with a smile while I grabbed my wine glass with the same smile.
"For our friendship." The two of us clinked each other's glasses before drinking the wine. The taste was very interesting and delicious at the same time, although it was not a wine as rich as Themyscira's, it was certainly an impressive wine.
"It's a good wine, Rias." I said smiling before feeling my mind start to spin which surprised me and made me nervous.
"What's wrong with me? My head, it spins so much." I tried to touch my forehead but I felt that even my hand was heavy. I looked at Rias and that was the last thing I did because suddenly I collapsed on the table with my body numb, before my eyelids closed I saw the girl approaching while my eyelids closed completely.
I felt dizzy, weak, tired and without strength. My mind was spinning as if it had been spun like a drill, the moment my eyes opened, my vision was blurry but when it cleared I was surprised to see that I was in my room but now it was different. The room was full of flower petals, aromatic candles and a perfume smell filled the air.
"You woke up." I turned surprised and saw Rias entering the room with a robe. I tried to move but I saw that my wrists and legs were tied, when I tried to pull I was surprised to see a magic circle on each of my limbs.
"Rias, what is this!?" I screamed terrified and nervous looking everywhere while the girl approached me at a slow pace.
"I didn't want things to end like this. I thought that if I prepared a romantic dinner for you I would be able to captivate your heart, but it didn't work." Hearing what Rias said shocked me greatly and made my fear rise.
"Rias, what are you talking about!?" I shouted looking at the girl with panic in my voice. She looked at me, but in a cold way that left me more scared than before.
"Benja. I want you to take my virginity." When I heard that my mind shut off in shock. Rias, Rias Gremory, the girl I met back in my days here in Kuou, the demoness who I have a good friendship with, suddenly now wants to have something more intimate? That left me in shock.
"Rias." I was speechless as I watched her take off her robe, revealing her panties and bra, both garments were white.
"I thought I could convince you to stay, but if I had to guess, one of the main reasons you can't stay is because of the girls who live with you, right?" The red-haired girl asked coldly leaving me speechless, she nodded, taking my silence as an answer.
"I considered many ways, many options. But I think this is the most acceptable to me." My body tensed and my heart was about to explode when I saw the girl climb on top of me turning red while I struggled to free myself.
"Rias wait, what are you talking about? What does all this mean!?" I screamed between panic and nerves looking at the redheaded girl.
"I know it's your first time, and you may not have experience in this, trust me, it's my first time too." Rias said as she took off her bra revealing her breasts. This made me tenser than ever.
"Rias stop, if this is a joke please stop, you can't be serious!" I screamed embarrassed but then I was speechless when she kissed me. As much as I struggled to move, she held me tightly forcing me to accept that kiss before separating from me and looking at me with annoyance.
"Why don't you accept me? Look at me, am I not beautiful for you!?" The girl screamed angrily looking into my eyes while I felt despair.
"Rias please stop, I don't want to do this." I said scared but then she hit me in the face before grabbing my shoulders in anger.
"And since when does anyone care about what you don't want to do!?. All my life I've been hearing the same shit about how I have to do my duties properly, and nobody cares if it's what I want to do or not!" The demon girl shouted in such an angry way that it terrified me even more.
"Rias please stop. I don't want to do this, I can't give you my first time and I don't want to."
"Shut up, shut up!" Rias hit me again with greater force making me shut up.
"I don't care if you have more bitches waiting for your cock. You are mine, you are my property, you belong to the Gremory house and therefore. Your soul, body and mind only belong to me!" The girl screamed before tearing my shirt without caring that it also caused a cut on my chest from her nails.
"If you take my first time, then he will have no control over me, they won't be able to do anything if they find out that I'm with someone. You are perfect for me, Benja." Rias said looking me straight in the eyes.
"I won't have experience in this, but I'm going to give you the greatest pleasure until you forget all the girls you've ever met." The demon girl said with a cold and determined voice making me shed tears of desperation and fear.
"Rias." I was silenced when she shoved a ball of socks into my mouth making me shut up, that only increased my desperation.
"Everything will be fine, Benja. I'm not afraid of getting pregnant if that's what scares you, as long as we can be together, the better." Rias said staring at me bringing her hands to my pants.
The tears only increased, I struggled to free myself, I struggled to use magic but I couldn't do anything. Fear and panic drowned my heart with desperation while I felt an immense amount of terror and nerves.
"Please, someone help me!" I screamed as best I could with my mouth gagged which annoyed Rias.
"Keep quiet!"
Just when the girl was about to attack, a turquoise magic circle appeared on the wall, suddenly, Lala came out of that magic circle. It didn't take a second, when she saw Rias on top of me, immediately the girl using her scythe pushed the demon girl away with a quick pull.
"Lala!" I screamed with tears of happiness looking at the girl in front of me.
"Master Benja, resist." Lala raised her weapon above her head, I saw how the seals that Rias used on me were covered in darkness until they broke. When I felt my strength return to me, I immediately broke my bonds.
"Damn it." Rias glared at me angrily but then saw Lala stand in front of me with her weapon in hand.
"If you want to touch him, you'll have to step on me first, demon." The white-haired girl said with venom in her voice which annoyed Rias.
Before a fight could break out in the room, a white magic circle appeared in the middle of the three of us causing us to close our eyes.
"It's too late." When I heard Rias speak, I was confused because I didn't know what she was referring to. But then I saw a beautiful gray-haired woman wearing maid clothes appear from the circle.
"Sleeping with a commoner. Your parents and brother would be very disappointed in you, Miss Rias." The woman said in a stern but calm tone looking at the red-haired girl.
"It's my life, I can give my virginity to whoever I want. What's wrong with giving it to someone who's better in every way and who's someone I can trust? You can't call him a commoner, you don't know him, and you don't know what he's capable of." Rias crossed her arms with a cold look.
"You, Grayfia, will be my older brother's queen. But that doesn't give you the right to call my Benja a commoner like he's just anyone." The gray-haired woman stood her ground before looking at me but she noticed that I was scared before I saw Lala.
"Anyway, you are the heiress of the Gremory family. Please, all I ask of you is that you be careful with your actions and take care of yourself." The woman said before covering Rias with the robe that was on the floor before looking at me.
"My apologies for all this. My name is Grayfia, I am the maid of the Gremory house, it is a pleasure to meet you." She bowed while I tried to cover myself.
"My master needs time to recover his speech, what Miss Rias did was very abrupt as well as hostile." Lala said standing in front of me, drawing Grayfia's attention.
"I have never had the opportunity to meet a Dullahan in person, you are strange beings who do not let themselves be possessed by demons. May I know your name?" The gray-haired woman asked, keeping her tone calm and serene.
"My name is Lala, I am one of Master Benja's many relatives." The girl said with the same tone as Grayfia.
"Benja." I turned around and felt my heart stop as I saw Rias approaching, my instincts immediately made me back away, Lala noticing that raised her scythe defensively.
"Please. There's no need for threats." Grayfia approached Rias with the red-haired girl's clothes in her arms.
"Benja, I'm sorry about everything, I wasn't thinking clearly. Let's forget about this, okay?" Rias asked with a smile looking at me but I didn't know what to say after everything that happened.
"Miss Rias. I think it would be better if you leave your servant alone." Grafyia said looking at me making me feel a bit uncomfortable.
"I'm not your servant, we're family." I said looking at the gray-haired girl.
"Family?" Rias suddenly stood next to the woman before she could continue.
"We'll talk about this later, Grayfia." The red-haired girl said seriously. The woman looked at me one last time before nodding.
"Very well, Miss Rias." The demon girl looked at me one last time before approaching Grayfia.
"Mr. Benja, Miss Lala. I hope to see you another time and under better circumstances." The grey-haired woman said, bowing before making a magic circle appear in the room.
"They are in the room."
Rias and I saw each other for the last time in silence before the girl disappeared, leaving me alone with Lala.
"Master Benja, are you okay?" Lala asked before helping me stand up.
"Yes, but. What did Rias mean?" I fell silent to think and my eyes widened in horror and fear.
"Ana, Reinhardt!" Without hesitation I kicked the door before running to the room of the two veterans. The moment I kicked down the door, I saw the two veterans in bed.
"Ana, Reinhardt! Please tell me something, wake up!" I screamed terrified looking at the two adults.
"Master, let me do this." I saw Lala enter the room, the girl walked to where the two adults were before staring at them.
"They are asleep. They were drugged with a sleeping pill." The girl said looking at me seriously leaving me surprised and nervous.
"But, why would Rias do something like this?" I asked with fear.
Today the demon girl behaved strangely and scary. First she acted distant when I talked to her about my trip, then she said she forgot her cell phone because she was cooking all day at my house, her way of talking was strange at dinner, but when I thought about dinner I stopped.
"Lala, come with me." I said before leaving the room while the girl followed me. I felt good seeing that the table was still full of food.
"Lala. Rias put something in the food, something that left me unconscious, do you think you can see what it was?" I asked seriously and nervously looking at the girl. She nodded before raising her scythe, suddenly the food was covered by a black aura for a few seconds before disappearing.
"The wine glass." Lala grabbed the glass I drank from and stared at it.
"This wine was contaminated with an aftertaste capable of numbing all the senses, the effects are capable of lasting hours, but I can say that the dose this wine had, would only leave the victim unconscious for half an hour." The girl said seriously before lowering the glass. Hearing this scared me, I never expected Rias to do something like this.
"Master Benja. It's clear that after this you can't be left unprotected, it would be better to bring the other girls as soon as possible and think about what's going on with that Rias." Lala said seriously. I was speechless thinking about everything before nodding.
"Yes, it's the best option. But, how did you manage to appear before Rias did what she was going to do to me?" I asked embarrassed looking at the girl.
"When a contract is made with a familiar, he can know at all times when his master is in danger, since I am the only one with magical abilities in his group, I offered to come here to defend him, master Benja." Lala said looking at me with her expressionless face leaving me surprised.
"That's surprising, Lala. And, please you don't have to call me master, I said that you can call me by my name only." I said with a nervous smile looking at the girl.
"I apologize, Benja. I will go get the other girls, in the meantime, stay here, I will be back soon." said the girl before turning to leave but I stopped her.
"Lala, wait." She stared at me which made me feel uncomfortable because of her eyes.
"Rias's maid said that you are a Dullahan, what exactly is that?" I asked with doubt and curiosity looking at the girl. Lala remained silent when I said that.
"I'll tell you later, for now, we must find the others to stay here and protect him. I would advise you to organize the evidence we have." The girl said before walking through the halls. She gave me one last look before disappearing into a magic circle.
Once I was alone I looked at the food that Rias gave me, before grabbing the wine glass. I stared at that drink remembering everything before going to my room.
"Athena, are you there?" I asked as I closed the door and began to remove everything that the demon girl had put there.
"Always, how can I help?" Athena's voice echoed in the room as I began to make traces on the walls.
"I need you to project my interrogation with Minette, also show me the newspapers that Barbara and Olivia found." I saw how on the wall I saw a hologram with everything I asked Athena for.
"Let's work." I whispered before listening to the pre-recorded interrogation as I began to analyze everything in detail.
Fallen angels can't erase human minds, only devils can, Akeno and Rias's strange behavior, the attempted rape, and the drugs the demon girl used. Something was wrong, now in my hands was a puzzle and it was time to put the pieces together.
"What you did, was a barbaric act and very rude."
Rias and Grayfia were back at the club, only this time they were in the red-haired girl's room.
"I just want to give my virginity to someone I can trust. What's wrong with that?" The demon girl asked with her arms crossed looking at the gray-haired girl.
"I saw the terror in young Benja's eyes, I don't know what you wanted to do to him or what you were doing to him, but that's not something your father taught you." Grayfia said sternly making Rias roll her eyes.
"Now you're going to bring my father in? You know perfectly well that this shit wouldn't have happened if you hadn't interrupted in the first place." The red-haired girl said angrily turning her back to Grayfia.
"If you hadn't stopped this, you would be in danger from the Dullahan girl that your servant has. What confuses me, is why does he refer to you as family when your position is a servant under his control?" Rias fell silent at Grayfia's words and stood up angrily.
"Get out of my room, Grayfia. I don't want to see you." Rias said seriously without turning to look at the girl.
"I'm afraid that won't happen. Tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Riser will come to visit the human world." The gray-haired girl said, leaving the red-haired girl speechless.
"What did you just say?" Rias asked in a dry and cold tone upon hearing that statement.
"Mr. Riser Phoenix will come here tomorrow afternoon. It was a request from the Phoenix house for you two to discuss your wedding plans, Mr. Sirzechs ordered me to stay here until tomorrow to avoid any kind of conflict between you two." Grayfia said looking at Rias who now looked like a statue.
"For now, I'll be in the guest room, I must communicate this to Mr. Sirzechs. I'll ask you to please rest and mentally prepare yourself for tomorrow." Once Grayfia finished speaking, she left the room, leaving Rias alone in the room.
Rias' anger made her blood boil. The girl grabbed her hair tightly remembering what she was close to achieving with me, and now it was added that Riser Phoenix, her fiancé, would come to visit tomorrow. The girl screamed and without thinking twice began to destroy her room out of anger, the furniture was thrown, the curtains torn, nothing to save her from her anger.
"Benjamin! Damn piece of shit, good-for-nothing virgin, disgusting shit-eating fox!" Rias screamed angrily throwing things at the walls without caring about anything.
After a moment, Rias fell to the ground on her knees with labored breathing as anger slowly left her body, but hatred remained in her mind coupled with desperation, sadness and fear.
"If only I had drugged him more, damn, I wouldn't have cared in the least that he was unconscious." Rias said venomously before standing up and looking at her reflection in a broken mirror.
"Benja. I swear on the name of my family, that you will not leave this city, and that you will never abandon your position as my cute servant, forever." The red-haired girl said with a smile looking at her reflection before turning off the light.
"It's just a matter of time. You saw my naked body, and I know that as a man, you won't stop remembering it. Soon you'll be back on my feet, and finish what we started. You'll see." Rias said before lying down on her bed with a smile as she slowly began to fall asleep.
"Rest, my cute servant." That was the last thing she said before falling fast asleep.
The night was slow, overwhelming and full of doubts. Miia almost suffocated me when she and the other girls showed up, Lala had told what happened and everyone was serious, well, Rachnera found this somewhat funny with Doppel, but it was thanks to Charlotte that she kept the seriousness of the subject.
For hours, we were trying to put the threads together, but it was an impossible task. With each answer, more questions came, making the task of relating everything and finding the real culprits something almost impossible to accomplish.
The girls and I stared at the huge footprint in front of us with our eyes tired from seeing it so much.
"This is useless, no matter how hard we try to find the real culprits, we only take longer." Kii said annoyed looking at the board.
"There must be something else missing, it's impossible that there are so many pieces and we can't find their partner." I said seriously looking at the evidence we had.
"It's hard to come to a conclusion if we don't have more evidence to help," Charlotte said seriously, looking at me, making me sigh in annoyance.
"Benja, are you awake?" We all turned around in fright when we heard Reinhardt's voice on the other side.
"Everyone keep quiet." I said nervously causing everyone to nod as I slowly approached the door, when I opened it, I saw the German man looking at me with a smile.
"Good morning, sleepyhead. If you don't come down to breakfast you won't be able to go to school." The man said with a smile. I looked at the clock in my room and saw that there was half an hour left until classes started.
"Oh, haha. Yeah, that's right. Umm, you guys go ahead, I need to finish my homework before I go." I said with a nervous smile looking at Reinhardt.
"Do you need help?" We both turned around and saw Ana walking up the stairs.
"No, it's an easy task. Umm, you two don't worry, I'll see you at school." I said shyly causing the two adults to look at each other.
"Okay, umm. We'll leave your breakfast ready, just don't be late, okay?" The German man said with a smile, a smile I returned.
"Yeah, I promise." The two adults smiled at me before walking down the stairs, making me close the door slowly.
"Who were they?" Fei asked curiously looking at me.
"They're Reinhardt and Ana, two friends of mine who pretend to be my parents at Kuou Academy." I said worriedly before looking at the girls.
"What are you worried about?" Akane asked curiously making me sigh.
"Everything. Once we find out what happened, I don't know if I'll be able to withstand the storm that will later be unleashed because of me. There are things I don't want them to know, but I'll have to tell them at some point." I said before letting myself fall against the wall. They all looked at this with slight concern and Centorea approached me.
"We've been working all night, why don't you go to the academy while we take care of investigating this? It would be good for you to relax your mind a little." Cerea said with a smile making me smile a little.
"Yes, I think it can work." I said as the girl helped me stand up.
"Don't worry, Benja. The girls and I will find the answers for you, dear." Miia said with a smile making me smile more.
"Thank you girls, you are my salvation." I said smiling looking at the girls.
"Well, if you really want to thank us, you could." Leechi was going to continue talking but Mero hit her with his tail.
"Stop asking Benja for his blood, you sick bastard." The mermaid said seriously while the leech girl held her head in annoyance.
"Don't worry, Master Benja. I'll make sure no one fights." Lala said staring at me making me nod.
"Thank you, Lala." I said smiling but then Miia held me with her tail.
"Love, that's not fair, I should be the one in charge!" The girl shouted with a childish pout looking at me making me laugh shyly.
"Okay, Miia. Can you help Lala, is that fair?" I asked shyly while the girl showed me a huge smile.
"I won't let you down, my love!" The girl shouted with a smile making me laugh.
"I'll see you all later." I said before leaving the room leaving Lala and Miia in charge.
When I left the house I saw that the sky turned grayish, something that didn't bother me, the rain was like my best friend to help me clear my mind. I started walking with the downpour on my head, while the water fell on my hair I started to think about everything we had until now. The limit of spells that the fallen angels could possess due to their time in heaven, the forbidden spells created by the 4 great satans before their deaths in the war, Akeno's sad and fearful behavior, Rias's rude, distant, cold and strange way, the drugs that the demon girl used without explanation on Reinhardt, Ana and me, and her attempt to rape me.
As much as I searched for a way to connect the pieces, there was still more missing, and I also had my doubts and questions. Mittelt spoke with all honesty, but that also worried me, because the only demon families here were Rias' and Sona's families. Which meant that one of those two families was responsible for everything. Right now he was praying that there was a third family here instead of them.
I kept walking thinking about everything until I stopped dead when I recognized this street.
"This place, was where I fought against the fallen angels and Fried." I looked at the place and I could see that everything seemed normal, as if a battle had never been fought. I started walking until I got to the house and I could see that the house was there, but repaired as if it had never been destroyed.
"This can't be true." I whispered shocked seeing the building standing without any change.
Another piece to the unfinished puzzle. Now the building where Fried killed a family and where I transformed into a giant Kitsune that instead of being destroyed, was in perfect condition.
This was impossible, but I also noticed something that made me think. The battle would have generated a lot of noise, a great chaos that would have generated an immediate evacuation or at least, the mobilization of police in the area in search of me and that without mentioning that there would be news talking about this or patrols patrolling the area.
I stood there silently thinking about what Mittelt told me. I didn't want to believe it and I refused to accept it, but if what he said was true, then Rias or Sona were behind these events. How was it possible that no one knew what happened that night, if the chaos that broke out could have alarmed the entire city?
"I must know the truth." I said seriously before resuming my way to Kuou Academy. I urgently needed the answers and I couldn't wait any longer, but who would I ask for them? Although I wanted to talk to Rias, I wasn't ready to confront her. After what happened last night, I wasn't mentally ready to face her after what she did to me, and I feared the worst if the two of us were alone and she attacked me like that again.
"Sona. I must talk to her." I said seriously before starting to walk to the academy. She was the last person I could turn to, I didn't know what was going on in this city. But I needed to know, right now.
Asia had a lost look. The girl was staring at the window in absolute silence.
"Asia." The blonde girl came out of her thoughts to see Akeno.
"Good morning, Akeno. I'm so sorry, it's just that. I was wondering, what will my new life in Germany be like with Benja and his family." Asia said with her gaze fixed on the gray sky.
"Are you scared?" Akeno asked with a smile causing the girl to quickly deny her expression.
"No, it's not that! It's just that, I'm sad to have to leave, I'm really going to miss them a lot." The black-haired girl smiled at the blonde girl's words before putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, Asia. You'll see that everything will be fine, besides, Benja said that we could visit them, so there won't be any problem." Akeno said with a smile making Asia smile.
"Yes, that's true. Thank you Akeno, and I also want to thank you for letting me sleep with you in your apartment, I just wish I had a cell phone so I could call Benja and tell him I'm okay." The girl said worriedly looking out the window.
"Don't worry, Asia. I'm sure Benja will be fine, and I think he thinks you're fine too, after all, Rias said to accompany you." Akeno said with a smile looking at the girl.
"Yes, but. I'm still confused. When we arrived at the place Rias asked us to go to, no one asked for a contract with devils." What Asia said was true. Both girls were also confused, why would Rias tell them that they had a pending contract on the other side of the city only for it to all turn out to be a lie?
"I don't know, Asia. But I promise you that we'll talk to Rias about this later." Akeno said seriously. The black-haired girl knew that her red-haired friend was too serious to joke around, especially when it came to work.
"Hey girls." The two girls turned to look at Kiba.
"Kiba, what a surprise, do you need something?" Akeno asked curiously looking at the blond boy.
"Rias asked for everyone to be at the club for an urgent meeting before classes start. She sounded serious." The blonde boy said seriously making the black-haired girl nod.
"I understand. We'll go right away." Kiba nodded at Akeno's words before walking away, leaving the two girls behind.
"What's going on?" Asia asked fearfully as she looked at the black-haired girl.
"Don't worry, Asia. It's probably due to something serious that happened at the last minute, you'll see that it will be resolved quickly." Akeno said with a smile before starting to walk with the blonde girl to the club.
The girl's smile faded as they walked down the halls and changed to a serious face when a presence came to where she was, a presence that was familiar to her.
"Shit. I just hope Benja is here as soon as possible." Akeno whispered to herself as the two girls continued on their way to the occult club.
Sona was busy, being the leader of the student council, all her days were covered with reports that had to be filed, classified and analyzed. Applications from students who wanted to enter Kuou, permissions for events from the academy clubs, organization of final exam dates, and of course, on many occasions she received complaints from girls about perverted students.
"It's raining very hard today." said Saji looking out the window while Sona was signing some papers.
"That's right, Saji. Today we have a rainy day ahead of us." The girl with glasses said seriously until she heard someone knocking. That caught everyone's attention, because they weren't expecting anyone.
"Come in, please." Tsubaki was the one who spoke and suddenly everyone saw me enter the office.
"Good morning, Sona." Everyone saw that I was wet from head to toe because of the rain.
"Benja, are you okay? You're too wet, you could get sick." Said the girl with glasses, surprised, looking at my wet uniform.
"I didn't notice." I said before starting to walk to where Sona was.
"Umm, can I help you with something?" The girl asked curiously while staring at me.
"Yes, I think you can." I said before sitting down on a chair.
"Sona, I need you to answer a few questions for me. Please." What I said caught Sona's attention.
Rias' heart was in her throat but she was also serious. Kiba, Koneko and Issei were in front of her waiting for Asia, Akeno and I to arrive. When the door opened, the girl raised her head only to see the two girls entering.
"Sorry for the delay." Asia said with a smile but then she noticed Grayfia.
"Miss Rias, who is that woman?" The blonde girl asked curiously looking at the gray-haired girl.
"That was the same question I asked her but, she didn't answer me." Issei said looking at Rias.
"Miss Rias, should I start?" Grayfia asked curiously but the girl shook her head.
"No, there's still someone missing. Benja isn't here yet." The red-haired girl said seriously but then everyone saw a huge magic circle open in the middle of the room. Suddenly a tornado of fire appeared where screams of agony were heard, Issei and Asia saw everything in surprise while Rias was very serious watching how a blond man in a red suit appeared from the fire.
"Phoenix." Kiba said with venom as everyone watched as the fire disappeared revealing the newcomer.
"It's impressive, I forgot the feeling I get coming to the human realm." The man turned to look at Rias with a smile.
"I've come for you, Rias, love." The red-haired girl looked disgusted upon hearing that man speak as did the others, only Issei and Asia looked at everything without knowing what to say.
"Who is that man?" Issei asked surprised looking at the blond man.
"More respect, young man. The one in front of you is called Riser Phoenix, he is Miss Rias' fiancé." When Grayfia spoke, it was like dropping a bomb on the two teenagers who had no idea about this and looked at Riser in surprise.
"Is he Rias' fiancé!?" Issei shouted surprised making the gray-haired woman nod.
"He is the third son of the Phoenix family, one of the few pure-blood demon families still alive." The woman said in a calm tone, shocking the brown-haired boy and Asia even more.
"Well, what way is this to welcome me into your humble home, Rias? Aren't you coming to greet your future husband properly?" Riser asked with a smile while Rias was clenching her fists in anger.
"Go fuck yourself, you piece of shit." The red-haired girl said angrily looking at the blonde man, who didn't seem to care about the insult in the slightest.
"Miss Rias. Please." Grayfia said seriously looking at the demon girl. Rias had to swallow her own venom before looking at Akeno.
"Akeno, do me a favor and prepare tea, please." Rias said seriously making the girl nod.
"Right away, Miss Rias." Akeno left the room and once she did, her serious face changed to one of concern.
"Benja, where are you?" The girl whispered quietly as she walked to the kitchen.
"So, what questions exactly do you want to ask me, Benja?"
Sona had asked Tsubaki to please bring me a warm towel and pour tea for the two of them.
"They're nothing serious, it's just that, I'm really curious to know some things." I said before drinking some tea while Sona shifted in her seat.
"Well, I'm listening." The girl said with a smile as I put the tea cup down.
"What powers do demons possess?" Sona seemed surprised at my question before returning to her calm demeanor.
"Why do you ask that, Benja? If it's clear that you have powers, why are you interested in knowing the powers of demons?" The girl asked curiously as I put the tea cup down.
"Rias never told me about the powers that demons can have, in fact, she never even told me there were books about it. I'm just curious to know what powers I can obtain, that's all." I said looking at the girl calmly making her nod.
"Well. That's a bit of a difficult question to answer, you see Benja, as pure-blood demons, we have a wide repertoire of magic and spells, but since you are a demon by the evil pieces, all you can get are the promotions that can raise your power. Unfortunately that doesn't allow you to use demonic magic, although perhaps your magic gives you access to some abilities, there will be spells that are out of your reach, since only pure-blood demons are allowed to use them." Sona said looking at me with a smile making me nod.
"I understand. And I would like to know, why only pure-blood demons have access to the spells that you say are out of my reach?" I asked with a soft smile looking at the girl making her think.
"Well, that's mainly because most of those spells were created by the 4 great Satans before the war. Those spells were then passed down to the major families of the Demon Nobility like my family, Rias' family, and others." I nodded at what the glasses-wearing girl said.
"I understand. But only noble families have access to that magic? Or maybe the rest of the other demons too?" I asked curiously but the girl shook her head.
"I'm afraid not. Although I don't deny that other pure-blood demons could master these spells, they don't have enough magical ability to perform such magic spells. On the other hand, high-class demons have more than enough magical ability to be able to perform the spells without any complications, although of course, there will also be spells that will be our strong point and others that even if we can master, will be almost impossible to control and that is because our families specialize in other spells very far from those created by the ancient 4 Satans." Sona said seriously looking at me.
"I understand. And tell me, Sona. Exactly, what spells did you learn?" I asked curiously. Sona seemed somewhat uncomfortable in her seat and coughed.
"Umm, well, there are many. Which ones would you be interested in knowing?" Sona asked with a shaky smile while I drank some tea.
"Tell me, about the forbidden spells." When I said that, Sona was speechless staring at me.
"Forbidden spells?" The girl asked surprised making me nod.
"Days ago, when I went to rescue Asia, one of the fallen angels that I captured mentioned something about forbidden spells that the 4 great Satans created and that caused such controversy that it led the angels to investigate about those spells." I said calmly while Sona looked nervous.
"How did you know that?" The girl asked surprised looking at me nervously.
"Because that same fallen angel, confessed something very serious to me." I said as my eyes changed to blood red. Something that scared Sona and made the others nervous.
"Sona. Let's talk." I said with my fingers interlaced, looking the girl straight in the eyes.
Rias felt like she was going to explode at any moment, at Grayfia's request or rather, out of obligation. The red-haired girl had to sit with Riser on the same sofa, that wouldn't be difficult if it weren't for the fact that the blond man was caressing the demon girl in a rather invasive way that generated anger in those present.
"I must admit, dear Rias. Your queen never ceases to surprise me, she always prepares a good tea." Riser said with a smile holding a cup with the tea that Akeno prepared.
"Thank you for the compliment." The black-haired girl said seriously. If this wasn't such a serious meeting, the red-haired girl wouldn't have hesitated to put poison in the coffee. Rias' discomfort and anger became more present when Rise began to grope her thighs, that was enough for the girl to stand up firmly.
"That's enough. Riser, I've told you many times and I'll tell you again, I have no intention of marrying you." The girl said firmly, making the blond man laugh.
"Come on Rias, you can't be so selfish. Your family's back is against the wall, so you don't have the chance to think for yourself." Riser said with a smile looking at Rias. That of course, irritated the demon girl.
"I'm not going to bring my family down. But if I'm going to marry someone, it has to be someone I love and who loves me." The red-haired girl said seriously without turning to look at Riser, but she knew that the blond boy didn't seem to care in the least about what Rias said.
"The demon world is in crisis, Rias. You know better than anyone that almost all pure-blooded demons, after what happened in the war, demons like us now become a rarity to find. You know perfectly well that our parents arranged this marriage for the common good." Riser's words made Rias have the urge to spit in the blonde boy's face for such words, but she had to suppress that, but not her anger.
"Our families? The Phoenix family all did was strangle my father, my older brother and our entire family with this arranged marriage thing, it's your parents who want to slow down the whole process and they have no better idea than to mess with my family and cut off their air supply with their demands." Rias turned to look at Riser angrily.
"I won't repeat it, Riser. I'm not going to marry you." The red-haired girl said firmly before being surprised when the man held her chin with a serious but still smiling face.
"Be careful with your words, Rias. You know perfectly well that I am the representative face of the Phoenix family. I will not allow you to tarnish my honor and insult my family." Said Riser, who for the first time in the entire meeting, adopted a serious look that made the girl somewhat tense.
"President!" Rias and the man turned their eyes and saw Akeno and the others serious as if they were preparing to fight, something that caused Riser to laugh.
"I'll take you back with me to the Underworld, dear Rias. I don't care if I have to burn all of your servants to death." Riser's eyes glowed with fire as he looked at the red-haired girl, but Rias wasn't far behind and her eyes glowed with a crimson aura that made her anger clear.
"That's enough." Both devils had to separate when Grayfia spoke in an authoritative tone, causing the anger in the two devils to disappear.
"Miss Rias, Mr. Riser. I'm here by order of Mr. Sirsechz, I'm not going to sit idly by in case they try to fight in this room." The gray-haired woman said seriously, but that didn't stop Riser from smiling in the slightest.
"Since you are the most powerful queen here in this room, I don't think I have any other choice." The man said in a carefree manner looking at Grayfia.
"Mr. Sirsechz already had a feeling that something like this would happen. So he gave me full authorization to take serious measures as a last resort." The woman said in a serious tone looking at the two pure-blooded devils in front of her.
"Serious measures? Explain yourself better, Grayfia." Rias said seriously looking at the gray haired girl.
"If Miss Rias maintains her position in refusing the marriage, you are welcome to settle this with a ranking game against Mr. Riser Phoenix." What Grayfia said shocked most of everyone, Riser had an arrogant smile while Asia and Issei were confused.
"Rating game? Wait." Asia seemed to remember what happened at the meeting with Sona and Rias, where the glasses-wearing girl seemed to have brought up the topic.
"Miss Rias and Sona had talked about it before." the blonde girl said in surprise making Kiba nod.
"It's a game similar to chess where high-class devils fight each other with the help of their servants." The blonde boy said seriously without taking his eyes off Riser.
"Chess?" Issei asked confused looking at everyone.
"It was closely related to chess and it's because our powers are compared to chess pieces. That's why they were called Demon Pieces." Akeno said seriously leaving Asia and the brown-haired boy surprised.
"I've played and won every ranking game I've participated in, and you Rias, my love. You're not an officially qualified player, I don't even think you have the proper experience." Riser said with pride in his voice, which made Rias and the others very angry.
"Originally, experienced devils were allowed to participate in the ranking games." Akeno said seriously, which worried Asia and Issei.
"So she's at a disadvantage!" The brown-haired boy shouted in horror as he looked at the black-haired girl.
"This is only going to get worse." Now the attention went to Koneko, who spoke even more seriously than everyone was used to.
"Rias, just to make sure, are all of those here your servants?" Riser asked with a smile while the red-haired girl crossed her arms angrily.
"There's one more left. But why do you care about this?" Rias asked seriously and annoyed. Riser laughed before snapping his fingers.
Suddenly everyone saw how a large magic circle appeared in the room and suddenly the same fire tornado appeared but even bigger than before, everyone watched in surprise and shock as they saw a group of girls come out of the magic circle which left Rias very worried as well as everyone else.
"Rias, I want you to meet my maids. In total, I have fifteen, the complete set." Everyone was shocked to see the girls present in the room, Rias was the most affected seeing how Riser showed her an arrogant smile.
'Benja. Where the hell are you?.' Were the thoughts of the red-haired girl looking at the blond boy angrily.
Sona's heart was in her throat, her hands were sweaty and also running down her head. No matter how hard she tried to move, my eyes were glued to hers like the gaze of a true demon.
"So, Sona?" The girl choked when I spoke seriously.
"I'm waiting. I want you to answer my question, what were those forbidden spells?" I asked seriously looking into the girl's eyes.
"Benja." Sona didn't know what to say or how to speak but she lowered her head letting out a sigh of surrender.
"When the war of the factions began, the four great saints created very powerful spells that only a high-class devil could use, not only because of the great magic capabilities, but also because it carried a great danger to use them because if they were not used correctly, the consequences would be serious and even irreversible." Sona said seriously looking at me with some fear.
"Could you tell me the names of those spells and their functions?" I asked more seriously, which made the girl uncomfortable.
Sona's heart was in her throat, her hands were sweaty and also running down her head. No matter how hard she tried to move, my eyes were glued to hers like the gaze of a true demon.
"Benja, I."
"Sona." I interrupted the girl with a serious and cold tone that left the girl more nervous than she already was now.
"I ask you to please tell me those spells, right now." I said coldly leaving the girl scared.
"Why do you want to know this?" The girl with glasses asked scared looking me straight in the eyes.
"Because it turns out, the fallen angel I'm talking about is called Mittelt, a girl I once blamed for believing that she and her people were related to the brainwashing of this city. Although you may not believe it or perhaps you do know, there are a large number of missing people in this city, most of them from this academy. It's strange that with so many missing people, the government or even the Japanese army aren't involved in this, because with so many missing people it could be due to a criminal gang, don't you find it strange that no one is scared or worried in this city?" I asked coldly which made Sona even more tense.
"Benja, wait." Tsubaki wanted to speak but I raised my hand causing her to shut up.
"Let me explain further. This city behaves in such a peaceful and quiet manner that it is hard for me to believe that in this city no one remembers or even looks terrified by so many people who disappeared without any explanation. But above all, by something that happened nights ago." I said seriously before looking more closely at Sona's eyes.
"Days ago. I was sent to carry out a contract for Koneko, when a priest named Fried, who was supposed to be in Gotham City, arrived on the loose, and killed the people who were in that house. Asia Argento was there and I fought to protect her, Rias and the others appeared in a magic circle and suddenly we were outnumbered when Koneko warned us of fallen angels in the area. But that's not serious." Sona couldn't take her eyes off me, while she felt her heart in her throat.
"That night, I transformed into a giant Kitsune, and destroyed that house, not to mention that I killed many fallen angels that night. This is where the strange thing is." I said before resting my head with my hands together on the table with a cold look.
"That night, chaos broke out. A chaos that would have generated an immediate evacuation and a military mobilization to search for the supposed beast. And it turns out that this morning when I came here, that house disappeared and no one seems to remember it in the slightest." I said coldly while everyone in the room seemed more nervous than ever.
"Sona. Do you and Rias have something to do with this?" Sona seemed close to fainting when I asked her that question and she remained silent looking at my eyes with fear.
"Even better." The girl saw that I became more serious making my eyes shine.
"You and Ella are responsible for this town living in ignorance and in a supposed, wonderful city and not in a city where beneath its streets, there are corpses of innocent people?" I asked coldly leaving the girl speechless and with her heart on the verge of collapse.
The tension was palpable, everyone's hearts were beating as if suddenly the whole place was a jury where the sentence of their lives would be decided and where they feared receiving the death penalty.
I knew what I was doing, although I felt bad having to adopt a colder and more serious stance with Sona and the others, I really needed the answers. A part of me was serious, hoping to hear everything, but another part of me prayed that I was wrong and that there were third parties in all this, but I found it impossible to hear that part and it was due to the silence and the lack of cooperation of the girl with glasses in front of me.
"Yes, we did it!" I turned quickly and saw Saji covering his mouth with his eyes wide open in horror.
"Saji!" Sona screamed between panic and anger looking at the pawn but then she freaked out when I stood up.
"Saji." The boy freaked out as he saw me slowly approaching him with my eyes wide open in shock and disbelief.
"Repeat what you said." I said trying to stay calm but it was difficult because of what I had just heard.
"Benja, wait. I can." Sona tried to get closer but the girl was speechless when I made a katana appear in my hand and pointed it directly at her throat.
"Saji, repeat what you told me, now." I said seriously looking at the boy while the boy was now more scared.
"Miss Rias contacted us that same night to help erase the minds of all the people in the neighborhood and the police who had arrived, then we had to clean everything and pretend that house never existed!" Saji shouted in panic and fear.
I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I dropped my katana to the ground in shock upon hearing what the boy told me. Everything was now connected, now. Rias and Sona had spent years erasing people's minds, being high-class devils, they could manipulate the human mind as if it were child's play. That's why people lived in ignorance and in a happiness that to the human eye would be something normal, but to a trained eye could see the details.
I could feel a flood of emotions filling my veins. Rias had hidden everything from me, she and Sona were responsible for all of this. So many families destroyed, so many innocent people who were deprived of justice and a city shrouded in ignorance and a false world of happiness, a false peaceful city that hid a horrible secret.
"Rias." I gritted my teeth in anger as my hair moved as if they were living snakes. She hid things from me, she hid the truth from me, and surely she was hiding even more things from me.
"Rias!" I shouted angrily before destroying the club's wall with a fireball, generating a huge explosion.
Everyone in the student club fell to the ground coughing from the explosion and then watched in fear as I left the room in a rage.
"Benja, wait!" Sona shouted terrified and worried.
All the students and teachers came out of their classrooms to see what was happening, they were scared to see the destroyed student club room but then they were scared to see me walking. My footsteps left traces of ice, my hair was covered in electricity and fire as it changed to a dark color like my veins.
"What's going on!?" Reinhardt and Ana came out of their classrooms, surprised to see me walking down the halls in anger.
"Benja, what's going on!?" The veteran woman shouted, surprised and afraid to see me so angry.
"Rias lied to us!" I shouted angrily, which surprised everyone, but especially the two veterans.
"Benja, wait!" Everyone saw Sona and the rest of the student club run to where I was, which made me even angrier.
"Don't bother me!" I raised my arms before hitting the ground in fury. Suddenly the whole ground shook and all the students screamed in horror as they saw how ice columns rose from the ground, blocking the path to Sona who was in shock.
"I'll deal with you later, Rias owes me answers, and I want them now!" I shouted angrily before resuming my path while the students ran terrified with the teachers.
"Benja, wait, you need to calm down!" Reinhardt shouted as the man tried to move through the crowd but it was useless.
"Ana, put him to sleep!" The veteran woman heard Reinhardt's scream and immediately took out her dart gun before aiming at me, but it was impossible due to the many students who were running and me moving away.
"Benja, stop!" Ana shouted worriedly but she saw me walk to a dark corner before disappearing from the building.
"Where is he going?" Reinhardt asked worriedly when he no longer saw me.
"He's heading to the abandoned building, he's going for Rias!" The two veterans turned around and saw Sona hitting the ice.
"But why!?" The German man shouted looking at the girl on the other side.
"Benja knows that we are responsible for the missing people, you must stop him!" The two adults were shocked to hear what Sona said without being able to believe it.
"What are you talking about!?. Do you have something to do with this!?" Reinhardt was the angriest but he was interrupted when Ana grabbed his shoulder.
"Reinhardt, now is not the time. We must look for Benja before everything gets worse." The woman said seriously looking at the German man. The two looked at each other seriously, Reinhardt took one last look at Sona before nodding seriously.
"Yeah, let's go, Benja needs us." Ana nodded at what the German man said and the two ran out of the place leaving Sona behind.
Rias was now a time bomb. The red-haired girl couldn't believe what she was seeing yet, Riser Phoenix, the man she hated with all her heart and soul, had a whole team of girls. She had to suppress Issei when the brown-haired boy cried in envy at the sight of Riser's girls, but the truth was that the red-haired girl could feel a great power in all the pieces, a monstrous power.
"Do you see it now, Rias? You know perfectly well that you have no chance. My maids and I have never ever lost a ranking game, and with you it will not be an exception. Just give up, my beloved Rias, accept that you no longer have a choice." Riser said in a mocking tone making the girl laugh. That caught everyone's attention.
"That's where you're wrong, Riser." The red-haired girl turned to see the blond boy in front of her.
"You haven't met one of my best servants yet. My beautiful and most precious servant, I can bet you that he won't hesitate to sweep the floor with you and your bitches you call maids." Rias said with a smile making Riser and the other women laugh.
"What a sense of humor your fiancée has, brother. She thinks her salvation will appear out of nowhere." A curly-haired girl in the group said.
Rias got upset but then everyone heard footsteps that caught the attention of the devils in the room.
"Look!" One of Riser's girls pointed to a corner of the room. As everyone turned around, they saw how I slowly walked out of the shadows with a cold and serious look. Rias and the others saw that my hair was now dark and my eyes blood red, but unlike Akeno and the others who felt nervous, the red-haired girl showed a happy and proud smile.
"Benja, it's good that you finally arrived. We were waiting for you." Rias said with a smile but she noticed that I didn't show any emotion, something that scared her a little.
"Benja?" Asia watched in fear as I slowly walked without noticing the presence of Riser or his maids who could see me.
"Rias." The girl felt a chill when I said her name with a coldness that ran down her spine.
"Benja, umm. If it's about last night, I." The girl couldn't continue because suddenly some roots with thorns came out of my arm, wrapping around Rias's neck leaving her friends in shock.
"Benja, what are you doing!?" Akeno screamed terrified looking at how I had Rias by the neck.
"You disgusting fucking bitch, scum of humanity, worthless piece of shit, excuse for a life!" I screamed angrily as my roots squeezed Rias's throat harder.
"Benja, stop, you hurt her!" Asia screamed terrified looking at me but I ignored her.
"Benja, wait, why, why are you doing this?" The red-haired girl asked with difficulty but then she got scared when my roots squeezed her neck even harder.
"And on top of that you ask, stupid bitch!" I screamed before slamming Rias against the ground in anger leaving her on the ground.
"You damn liar, you lied to me!" The demon girl froze upon hearing what I said and looked at me in surprise and fear.
"Benja." She felt a lump in her throat as I made my vorpal sword appear in my hand.
"Damn bastard!" Just as I lunged to attack Rias, Grayfia intervened, making me stop dead in my tracks with my vorpal sword just a few centimeters away from Grayfia's face, who didn't even flinch.
"Mr. Benja. I'm going to ask you to remain calm and speak in a reasonable and civilized manner. If Rias is accused of something she has done against you, then it would be best for you to keep your composure and adopt a less aggressive and more civilized way of interacting." The gray-haired woman said seriously. I growled showing my fangs in anger but slowly calmed down before nodding as my hair returned to normal as well as my eyes.
"Yes, it's fine." I said seriously looking at the woman who nodded in approval.
"Perfect, now, Mr. Benja. Tell us what Rias is accused of that you attack in such a hostile and brutal manner?" Grayfia asked with her arms crossed. I turned around and angrily looked at Rias who was weakly getting up, my Kitsune instincts were demanding me to attack but I had to suppress it before speaking seriously.
"Rias Gremory. You are accused of large-scale cover-up, and being complicit in leading these people into ignorance." I said seriously as I looked at the demon girl. Rias and her friends were in shock as were Issei and Asia.
"Do you have evidence to support that claim?" Grayfia asked curiously making me sigh annoyed.
"Yes, and many more." I said before looking Rias in the eyes angrily.
"My name is Benjamin Escudero, I belong to a gurnamental organization known as Overwatch, our occupation is to protect and take care of both human, omnic and monster life in Metropolis. Some time ago, two of our agents decrypted a myriad of files from an old computer in the printing press of this city where articles of missing young people were read that extends from many years ago. I came to this city with two of my companions Reinhardt Wilhelm and Ana Amari who posed as my legal parents, all in order to be able to investigate further about these disappearances." Rias' and the others' eyes were wide open in shock. The red-haired girl knew my story, but I never told her my true reason for coming here.
"Can you explain how you came to the conclusion that Miss Rias was involved in the events you claim to have happened?" Grayfia asked seriously, looking at me, making me nod.
"Days ago, I went to rescue Asia Argento from some fallen angels who wanted her powers. Raynare, Kalawaana, Mittelt and Dohnaseek, were responsible along with a priest who should be rotting in Gotham named Fried. That same night I killed Dohnaseek and Raynare, well, she will never be a problem again. But the important ones are Kalawaana and Mittelt, they surrendered and offered to speak the truth. Today we had an interrogation where a friend of mine and I would deal with them separately." I said seriously looking at Grayfia before turning my attention to Rias.
"In that interrogation I made Mittelt speak the truth to me, and when I was about to reach a conclusion she dropped a bomb on me." My eyes flashed with fury looking at the red-haired girl.
"Fallen angels don't have the magic to alter human minds. Mittelt told me that only devils can do that because that's a power that the 4 great satans gave them, right?" I asked seriously while Rias was between shock, denial and anger.
"Lie, they lied to you!" Rias shouted angrily only to be silenced when I hit her in the face making her back up and crash into her desk.
"Don't you dare lie to me! I didn't believe that either because I trusted you, but do you think after what you did last night I could trust you again!?" I shouted angrily while Grayfia intervened again.
"Please stay calm." The gray haired woman spoke calmly before staring at me.
"It's true. That spell is one that the 4 great Satans created." The woman said seriously making me nod.
"Yes, but I also discovered something else." I looked at Rias with disgust while she looked at me between anger and nervousness.
"I had a talk with Sona, and I discovered something even worse. While I was coming I noticed that the building where we first rescued Asia was no longer there, it had disappeared. Saji confessed to me that Rias also has something to do with that cover-up and many others." I said seriously looking at the red-haired girl.
"While it is true that devils have the ability to use magic to alter the human mind, you, Mr. Benja, lack sufficient evidence to be able to blame Rias for something so serious. We devils have coexisted on Earth for many years and it is almost impossible for Miss Rias to have anything to do with the cover-up of the missing people. And even though Sona and Rias have done such a thing as erasing a building where a battle had previously broken out, it was out of a duty to keep the factions a secret." Grayfia said seriously, staring at me.
"As devils, we have an obligation to keep everything related to the factions in the shadows. If other humans were to find out that we walk among them as normal people, the consequences would be catastrophic and the crises that would come would be even worse than war." The woman approached me with a serious and firm look.
"You accuse Rias of things that may not be true, even if you have your word to swear to said accusations, I'm afraid the lack of evidence doesn't help at all." I clenched my fists angrily as I listened to the woman while lowering my head in disappointment for forgetting that key detail.
"Mr. Benja, I will ask you to apologize to Miss Rias right now for the false accusations she made against her name." Grayfia said seriously. Rias had a victorious smile as she saw me lower my arms.
"I'm sorry. Rias." The girl's smile grew wider as she heard my voice, low and weak.
"I'm sorry. For not bringing the evidence, but I brought the truth with me!" I shouted before taking out a golden bow from my coat that caught everyone's attention. I immediately threw the bow over Rias and tied her tightly.
"Benja, what does this mean!?" Rias shouted between shock and anger looking at me seriously.
"What I have in my hands is known as the Lasso of Truth, a weapon created for the Amazon warriors of Themyscira. This Lasso has a very powerful magical power, and it allows the user to force the person who is tied to speak the truth." I said seriously, which horrified the red-haired girl.
"Impossible, you're lying!" The demon girl screamed in shock, looking at me in fear.
"Do you want to try?" I squeezed the Lasso of Truth tightly, causing the lasso to glow in a strong golden tone.
"Rias Gremory. Is what I said a lie? Is everything I just told you here and now a lie?" I asked coldly, looking at the girl.
Rias wanted to keep her mouth shut, she was burning with anger inside but also with terror, but her body didn't cooperate, even though she told herself to remain silent. In the end, she fell to the ground on her knees while the girl felt the magic of that lasso wrapped around her.
"No. Nothing you said was a lie." Asia and Rias' other friends were shocked to see the red-haired girl confess.
"Then confess. Did you have anything to do with all those missing people?" I asked coldly, pulling hard on the Lasso of Truth, causing the object to shine brighter. Rias wanted to stay quiet but she couldn't contain the voice of truth inside her body.
"When my clan came here, we saw with our own eyes how the fallen angels killed people. They knew we were watching, but they never attacked us. The fallen angels were always careless, and we realized that when the city police and many people began to move wildly in search of the missing people. We knew that in a matter of days, they would know the truth about something paranormal happening, and that very soon, they would discover the truth." Rias wanted to stop her mouth, but no matter how hard she struggled, the voice of truth did not stop.
"Fallen Angels are arrogant and confident, it wouldn't take long for them to catch one of them and make them talk. So Sona and I made the decision to erase the minds of every inhabitant of Kuou without exception, then we made sure that all the files and newspapers in the printing presses were destroyed so that no one could remember anything. We have done this for many years, and we continue to do so, to this day." The red-haired girl said with her head bowed. Hearing this made my blood boil like never before and I grabbed the lasso in anger.
"You knew they killed innocent people, why didn't you do anything!?" I shouted angrily looking at the girl with rage while she didn't raise her head. Rias didn't want to continue talking, she didn't want to continue, but the voice of truth came out of her mouth forcibly while she was in tears.
"We don't care about human life, all we wanted was a life of peace on earth. We knew that the fallen angels camouflage themselves but we couldn't do anything, because if we were wrong, we would end up killing an innocent human. Since then we decided to pretend ignorance and avoid the fallen angels at all costs." The demon girl said with tears leaving me surprised and more upset than before.
"But then why save Issei!? They ignored human life, and you only care about Issei's power!?" I shouted angrily looking at Rias while my hair turned black again.
"Since a year ago. We've been analyzing Issei in detail to find out everything about him and the power he carries within him, his power coinciding with the Sacred Gear of one of the Emperor Dragons who were in the war years ago. I couldn't let Issei die and that power fall into the hands of the Fallen Angels, I needed it for myself." When I heard that I felt a lump in my throat, I looked at Rias with shock while my hair returned to normal.
I couldn't believe it. Rias had said it was to protect Issei and to prevent the fallen angels from having his power, but more than protecting him, she wanted his power for herself. A question suddenly came to my mind, a question that made my heart crack.
"Rias. That same afternoon, after I saved Issei, I was knocked unconscious to become a devil. You told me it was for my own good, to protect me. Is that true?" I asked with a broken voice looking at Rias. Rias' tears were quick to fall to the ground, when I saw her shake her head, I felt my heart break.
"When Issei was on his date with that fallen angel, Koneko informed me everything about you. And then she told me how you defeated the three fallen angels without even having any difficulty. I came to the conclusion that you have unmatched power so I decided to make you my servant, during that time, I asked Kiba and the others to get closer to you to get to know you better and to learn more about your powers." Rias's tears continued to fall as she did not raise her head.
"When you defeated that renegade demon, you showed that you have unique abilities, and when you disobeyed me to save Asia, you showed me that you have an unwavering loyalty to the people close to you, I came to the conclusion that you were the perfect servant when I saw you fight that dragon in the forest of familiars. You showed me unique attitudes and skills that made me see that I made a good decision by making you my servant." Rias said with a broken voice. My eyes widened in horror and then I looked at Asia out of the corner of my eye who was also in shock.
"In the Church, when Asia was dead in my arms. You revived her because she was my friend, right?" I asked with a broken voice. Rias shook her head on the verge of tears which left me even more disturbed.
"Asia has a unique power to heal any kind of wound, no matter if it's human or demon. I decided to revive her for her power and as a way to keep you calm and prevent you from leaving me again." When I heard that my hands shook. A part of me wanted to fly away and cry, while another part of me, filled with anger and pain, made me tighten my grip on the rope.
"All this time. You lied to me, you hid this from me making me believe that we are friends, when in reality, I am just a simple servant to you?" I looked at Rias in disbelief but then I saw Akeno and the others. The black-haired girl was just as scared as the red-haired girl.
"Akeno." I released the lasso of truth and approached where the girl was.
"Tell me it's not true. Did you know this?" I asked with difficulty looking the girl in the eyes.
"Benja."
"Answer me!" I screamed clenching my fists in pain. The girl shed tears looking away and simply limited herself to nodding her head which was a hard blow to my heart.
"Kiba?" I looked at the blond boy and he didn't look me in the eyes.
"Koneko?" I looked at the white-haired girl and she didn't dare to look me in the eyes either.
I felt my heart shatter. Tears soon fell from my cheeks as anger, sadness, rage, depression, all the emotions in me began to hit me like a hurricane. They, who I saw as part of my family, part of my life, to whom I imagined a life of laughter and happiness where I would one day tell them my whole life, only to see that they had shamelessly deceived me by hiding a painful truth that I had the right to know.
But that was not the worst. Asia, a sweet, kind, gentle girl with a huge heart, was now a demon, and all because I let Rias turn her into what she is now so that she could live again. Now, she was just another servant like me, a servant whom I myself condemned because of me.
My fists began to bleed, I felt betrayed, hurt, used and deceived. I confessed to Rias many of my secrets and many things about myself, all for what? For nothing.
"Benja." Rias had freed herself from the Lasso of Truth with Grayfia's help.
"You condemned me." The red-haired girl was speechless as she heard me speak with venom and pain.
"You said we were friends, you said we were family. Not a shit, to you I'm just a filthy dog that must obey its master, huh?" I looked at Rias in disgust before looking at Asia.
"Come on, Asia. There's nothing to do here." I said coldly looking at the blonde girl. She stared at me before nodding and standing next to me.
"Benja."
"I never want to see your face again, Rias Gremory. Not you, not your filthy friends, what friends, they were just damn sons of bitches to me." I said coldly looking angrily at Akeno and the others.
"Goodbye." Asia and I started walking towards the exit without looking back. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for Rias.
"After what I did, after everything that happened, this is how you're going to pay me back!? The blonde bitch next to you wouldn't be here if it weren't for me, it's your fault for not protecting her!"
A deep silence was generated in the room. Asia saw me stop walking and instead, turn to face Rias.
"Repeat, that." Akeno suddenly heard thunder and saw through the window that the gray sky turned a darker shade and the wind blew so hard that it roughly moved the branches of the trees.
"Oh, you didn't want me to speak the truth? Well, then listen to this. You are just my servant, the fox that I have tied to my leash and if you think that you and that fox you call "friend" can leave, then you are wrong, because you belong to the Gremory house and this is where you will stay!" Rias shouted seriously.
Everyone saw that the lights in the room began to fail and the air was becoming much colder.
"Miss Rias, that's enough." Grayfia said seriously looking at the red-haired girl.
"And what do you think, Benja? You and I would have enjoyed a glorious night if it weren't for your cowardice and your relationship with the bitches you have at home, I would drug you and do it again just to see you with that little whore face when I had you in my hands." The red-haired girl said in a mocking tone looking at me.
"Miss Rias, that's enough!" Grayfia shouted angrily but everyone was left speechless when a lightning bolt struck near the place which startled everyone.
Everyone saw how roots grew on my legs and my hair was covered in a magenta fire, I slowly approached Rias while the windows in the room were exploding one by one letting a strong gust of wind whip the place and causing some of the things to fall to the ground.
Rias saw me stretch out my hand and suddenly saw how my fingers turned dark, electric sparks came out of the tip of my fingers and slowly in my hand a dark sphere with magenta details was generated.
"You wouldn't do it. I know you wouldn't kill me." Rias said looking at the sphere. I slowly raised my head showing eyes as empty as the night and with tears of blood.
"Try me."
The red-haired girl's eyes opened in horror at seeing my empty eyes, she backed away terrified not knowing what to do or say. She was feeling something she never thought she would feel. Fear, pure fear.
Akeno and the others didn't know what to do or how to intervene, they couldn't feel the sphere's energy, and as much as they wanted to move, their bodies were paralyzed by fear.
"Benja!" Suddenly Reinhardt grabbed my arms making the sphere disappear as he struggled to get free.
"Let me go, I'm going to kill her!" I shouted angrily while the man struggled to keep me still.
"Ana, quick!" The veteran woman didn't hesitate and stuck the syringe into my neck making me scream in pain as I felt the mixture of sedative and muscle relaxants run through my veins. I felt like my body was slowly falling asleep which made me desperate and angry.
"Rias Gremory. We will never forgive you!" The red-haired girl was scared when I shouted angrily, it wasn't because of what I said, but because my voice sounded like more than one person had spoken at once.
Silence reigned in the room as I fell unconscious in Reinhardt's arms. The two adults stared at Rias and then looked at each other, both putting on serious faces before looking at me.
"Asia, let's go." Reinhardt said seriously as he looked at the blonde girl.
"Is Benja okay?" The girl asked fearfully as she watched the German man carry me in his arms.
"He'll be okay. We just injected him with a serum that will render him unconscious for five minutes. But when he wakes up, you two have a lot of explaining to do." Ana said sternly. Asia looked at me and then at Rias.
"Yes, let's go please." The girl said fearfully as the three of them left the room.
Rias stood there, motionless, unable to believe what she witnessed; moments ago she could see death itself in front of her. The red-haired girl now witnessed the consequences; everything that Sona and Akeno had warned her about had now all become reality.
"Rias." The girl turned to see Akeno and her friends. The red-haired girl looked at the door again where Reinhardt, Ana, and Asia had left.
"I won't let him go." After saying that, everyone was surprised when Rias started running after us, something that scared her friends.
"Rias, stop!" Akeno shouted before following the red-haired girl.
Reinhardt, Ana and Asia were walking home. The three of them were in a very deathly silence, almost awkward, no one knew what to say or it was because none of them knew how to break that awkward silence. The two veterans looked at me with concern before glancing at Asia.
"Asia. What happened in there?" Ana asked with curiosity and concern looking at the girl.
"I. I don't know, it was so sudden." The poor girl was struggling to process everything that was experienced in that room. Anger, selfishness, sadness, betrayal, but above all, bloodlust, that last thing had Asia terrified.
"Calm down, Asia. Everything will be better when we get home, now, it will be better to put our things away and wait for Benja to wake up." Reinhardt said looking at the blonde girl making her nod.
"Yes, I think that will be for the best." The three of them arrived at the door of the house and when they opened it, they were startled to see all the girls arguing, but when they entered, that argument ended and the girls turned around only to be surprised to see me in Reinhardt's arms.
"My love!" Miia was the first to react and moved quickly to where Reinhardt was with terror and concern.
"My sweet dear, who did this to you!?" The Lamia girl touched my forehead and then looked at Reinhardt and Ana with poison.
"Damn it, tell me who is responsible for this!" The red-haired girl screamed before taking out her knife but Centorea quickly stopped her.
"Put that knife down, stupid bitch. Benja explained to us that they are his coworkers!" Cerea said in a serious tone looking at the girl. That surprised the two veterans.
"Wait, did Benja tell you about us?" Reinhardt asked surprised, suddenly they heard me wake up.
"He's waking up, Reinhardt, lay him down on the couch." The German man listened to what Ana said and laid me down on the couch while I slowly began to wake up.
"What happened? Where am I?" My vision was blurry and my mind was spinning, slowly everything started to improve and I saw Reinhardt and Ana.
"Reinhardt? Ana?" I asked surprised before being hugged by surprise by Miia who cried with happiness.
"My love, you had me so worried, I thought you wouldn't wake up!" Miia screamed through tears as she hugged me using her tail very tightly.
"But what happened?" Fei asked worriedly looking at me.
"That's the same question we were going to ask, and also, who are all of you?" Ana asked seriously looking at all the women in the room.
"We are Benja's relatives!" Papi shouted with a smile before flying to where the two veterans were.
"I am Papi, The Harpy. Wait no, was it, The Harpy, Papi? Papi the Papi? Harpy Papi?" The girls watched this with anime-style sweat drops.
"Daddy, I think this is not the time for introductions." Fei said with a nervous smile at his daughter's confusion.
"Benja, what is all this?" Reinhardt asked looking at me in surprise.
I looked at the girls in fear. It was time to tell the truth, the whole truth. But then I remembered what Rias did and everything else making me get serious before I saw the two veterans.
"I'll explain everything. But now we have to leave this city right now, we can't stay here anymore." I said seriously looking at the two adults.
"Benja."
"I know you want answers and I understand that. But we can't stay in this city, I'll explain everything on the way." I said quickly before Ana could speak.
"What can we do?" Tionishia asked looking at me with concern.
"Girls, help Ana and Asia pack all our things, Reinhardt, call Tracer and request an extraction order, we're not going to wait to go on a commercial flight." I said seriously looking at everyone.
"Yes love!" Miia shouted with a smile looking at me.
"Benja, after this is over, we want to hear all the details." Ana said seriously. I was a little scared but then I nodded seriously.
"You'll have them. Now everyone get moving." Everyone nodded before starting to pack, Lala was going to do the same but I stopped her.
"Lala, wait." The girl looked at me curiously before she went to help Ana and Asia.
"Master Benja, what do you need from me?" Lala asked curiously looking at me.
"Lala. Rias and the others are probably coming here, we need time." I said seriously looking at the girl.
"I understand, then I will help you, Master Benja." The girl said as the two of us left the house.
Rias' heart was in her throat. Her head was a sea of emotions ranging from anger and rage, to sadness and worry, she was running with all her might without caring about anything. The girl could hear the voices of Akeno and the others wanting to stop her, but the red-haired girl kept running without caring about anything.
"Benja, son of a bitch, you can't leave me, I'm your fucking family!" The demon girl still remembered everything that happened moments ago. It was difficult at that moment to know what was driving the girl, if it was her selfishness, her fear, or her sadness and desperation.
She continued running until she reached my street, and when she looked ahead she could see Lala and me in front of her making her smile before running faster.
"Master Benja. Are you ready?" Lala asked seriously looking at me.
"Spring will come earlier this year." I said coldly as my hair began to change to a mint green color.
I could see Rias running to where we are, seeing her smile made me feel disgust and anger, a smile full of lies and betrayal that only made me even angrier.
"Ivy Release: Wrath of Mother Nature!" I screamed before hitting the ground with both arms.
Rias stopped dead in her tracks as she felt the earth tremble, suddenly the entire street was destroyed when colossal roots came out of the ground, all the neighbors and people in the area began to run terrified as they saw how roots came out of the ground in a violent and fast way that rose to a great height.
"That will stop Rias momentarily. Lala, it's your turn." I said looking at the white-haired girl making her nod.
"Yes, master Benja."
"Akane, Mero. How are you doing with the computers?" Cerea asked looking at the two girls.
"We're almost done." The mermaid said as they helped Ana dismantle the computers.
"Okay. Fei, Tionishia, Manako, how are you doing with the clothes?" The centaur girl turned to see the three girls and Asia packing the clothes.
"Let's go as fast as we can, we still need the dirty clothes that Miia went to get." The ogre girl said as they packed the clothes as quickly as possible without worrying about folding them.
"Is everyone okay?" Centorea turned to see Lala and I returning.
"Everything is in order at the moment, Miia is now looking for the dirty clothes and I don't understand why it's taking so long." The centaur girl said seriously. Suddenly we heard loud footsteps and saw Reinhardt entering the room.
"Reinhardt, did you manage to communicate with Overwatch?" I asked seriously, making the man nod.
"Tracer tells me that they will be here in ten minutes, they will wait for us at the city port." said the German man, making me nod seriously.
"Alright. We should hurry, I highly doubt Lala's spells and mine can keep Rias at bay forever." I said seriously as we all went back to work.
"Where the hell did Miia go!? We can't waste any more time!" Cerea shouted seriously. We all went to the laundry room and what we saw made me blush with embarrassment.
"My beloved Benja's clothes, they're so soft." The Lamia girl was rummaging through my clothes with a shirt of mine on.
"Benja's underwear!" Miia looked at my underwear with a smile that slowly turned into a perverted smile, but before she could do anything, Cerea gave her a hard hit on the head.
"This is no time for your perverted things, snake ass!" The centaur girl shouted with a trembling eyebrow and a blushing face.
"But it's my Benja's clothes, he won't mind me having them!" Miia yelled with a pout while I had my head smoking. This would be something Carol Ferris and Toralei would do.
"That doesn't matter, get your asses up and take the clothes to the store, we can't waste any more time!" A loud explosion was heard in the wall of roots that supported Centorea's words.
Rias was throwing magic spheres at the roots that were beginning to give way. The red-haired girl didn't care about the people who ran away in panic or the roots she cut causing cars and houses to be destroyed.
"Benjamin!" The red-haired girl fired a much more powerful magic sphere causing the roots in front of her to be cut, the colossal roots fell like trees devastating the streets but opening a path that the demon girl didn't hesitate to run to enter.
Once Rias arrived, her surprise was enormous when she saw that the houses on the entire street were the same. The same number, the same building, the same color, and the same entrance, the entire street was like a neighborhood with only one style of housing, that infuriated Rias who didn't hesitate to attack the buildings with anger, destroying everything in her path.
"Benjamin! Get out of there, you damn coward!" The angry redheaded girl shouted, destroying the houses.
Far away from her, the girls, Reinhardt, Ana and I watched Rias destroying the houses in the neighborhood while we were far away from her.
"We have to move fast, the camouflage spell won't last forever." Lala said seriously looking at the chaos that Rias was generating. I clenched my fists in anger before sighing.
"Yes, let's go, all together." I said seriously and we all started running.
"Tracer, here Benja. Where are you?" I asked seriously as we all ran as fast as possible from the chaos.
"We'll be there in 3 minutes, we can already see the port in the distance. Get ready to board." The girl said through the communicator making me nod.
"Everyone to the port, the transport will arrive in 3 minutes!" I shouted seriously making everyone nod before running as fast as possible to the port avoiding the chaos behind us.
Rias kept attacking the surrounding houses left and right while her anger increased.
"Benjamin!." The girl had reached a point where her vocal cords were suffering from screaming. Suddenly she noticed that the buildings seemed to distort and suddenly she saw that it was all an illusion, that what she was really destroying were other houses.
"Guys, wait for me!" Rias turned around and saw Mero on the ground. My Kitsune ears popped out and I turned to see in horror that we had forgotten that the girl couldn't run like us.
"Mero!" I immediately dropped my things and ran to where the mermaid was with my heart in my throat.
Rias did the same and ran to where Mero was, but before she could get there, she was knocked down by a strong shot of water from me.
"Mero, hold on." I quickly picked up the girl in my arms and we started running. Behind us, Rias stood up with an angry face from the attack.
"Everyone to the port, now!" Ana shouted seriously and we all started running back to the port as fast as possible.
"Damn son of a bitch. You're not leaving here!" Rias took out her wings and without thinking she started flying behind us.
"Rias stop!" Akeno shouted worriedly before following the red-haired girl leaving Kiba, Koneko and Issei behind.
"I'm going to get you, Benja. I don't care if I have to destroy this whole fucking city to get it!" Rias shouted before attacking with magic spheres in our direction.
"Behind me!" Reinhardt immediately deployed his shield to block the attacks as best as possible while we all ran as fast as possible to the port.
"Tracer, we need the transport now!" I shouted worriedly seeing how the German man's barrier was breaking.
"We're close, I'll tell Emily to go faster." The girl said worriedly from the other side as we continued running.
"We must help Reinhardt!" Manako shouted worriedly looking at the German man.
"Everyone keep running, Manako, Cerea, help me!" I immediately started to throw fireballs, Centorea did the same with her arrows and the cyclops girl with the rifle I gave her making Rias have to dodge the projectiles with difficulty.
"I see the port!" Ana shouted pointing ahead. We all saw that indeed, the port was there and also the escape ship with Tracer waiting on the loading platform.
"Everyone get in. Yukio, help me!" I shouted worriedly. The pale-skinned girl nodded and we both stopped dead in our tracks.
"Ice Release: Winter Wall!" I shouted as my hair began to glow. Yukio put his hands together and a white magic circle appeared. We both put our hands on the ground causing a strong tremor, just when Rias was about to attack, a huge ice wall appeared in the red-haired girl's path, blocking her way.
"Yukio, let's go!" The two of us started running back to the ship with Rias breaking the wall behind us.
"Benja what's going on, who are all these girls!?" Tracer shouted between surprise and concern.
"There's no time to explain, Emily, full speed ahead. Get us out of here!" I shouted looking at the red-haired girl who was like a cop.
"Understood, honey!" Emily immediately activated the thrusters and the ship began to fly.
"We did it!" Miia shouted happily before hugging me tightly.
"No, look." Lilith pointed ahead and we all watched in fear as Rias flew to where we were while behind the wall was now rubble.
"Everyone hold on to your seats. Emily, full power!" Tracer shouted worriedly.
Rias began to attack the ship forcing me to generate a shield to protect the turbines while everyone held on tightly to their seats due to the force of the wind and the speed.
"Emily, close the cargo door!" Ana shouted worriedly. The girl was going to obey but then we all heard something holding on to the ship.
"Wait!" When we turned around, we were horrified to see Rias who had managed to grab onto the cargo door before it closed.
"Benja please, let me talk, I beg you!" The red-haired girl's voice sounded sad and hurt making me look at her in surprise.
"Benja. Listen, I know what I said to you was horrible, I know I don't deserve your forgiveness after everything I said and did to you. But please listen to me." Rias had tears in her eyes staring at me.
"I'm really sorry. When you told me your whole life story and I started to get to know you, I realized that I made a big mistake. I didn't think things through clearly and if I had known you better, I could have thought better about my options." The demon girl said with tears in her eyes, looking at me in pain.
"Benja, don't listen to her, she's cheating on you!" Akane shouted seriously as I walked to where Rias was, much to everyone's horror.
"Benja, please listen to me. Forgive me, if I had known everything you've been through and the things you had to do, I would have never involved you in this. Forgive me for lying to you and hiding the whole truth. I promise that I will never lie to you again. You have my word, I will never hide anything from you again. You are not my servant, you are my family." Rias said with a smile as she watched me approach her.
Everyone was staring at the scene, unable to believe what was happening. The girls were scared and worried before seeing me step on one of Rias' hands before pointing Cassidy's revolver at her head.
"Au revoir, Rias Gremory."
The next thing everyone heard was a gunshot that left most of them deaf, Rias' scream was heard but then stopped as we started to walk away from the place. Slowly the gate closed creating a silence in the place, no one knew what to say but they saw Tracer walking to where I was.
"Love, is everything okay?" The girl asked worried. But then she saw me drop my gun.
I turned to look Tracer in the eyes with pain. My heart was in ruins and I couldn't hold it back anymore, I hugged the girl tightly and burst into tears in her arms, something that scared her a lot and surprised her.
"Forgive me Lena, forgive me Emily, please." I said in pain hugging the girl tighter. Tracer turned to see Emily who also saw everything the same way as Lena, but then nodded seriously.
"We'll be arriving at Metropolis in half an hour, I'll try to make it twenty. Tracer, please keep Benja calm on the journey." Tracer nodded as Reinhardt and Ana joined the hug worriedly. Miia, Asia and the other girls looked worried and remained silent watching the scene without knowing what to say or do.
Her whole body was wet and weak, her mind was a movie being replayed from beginning to end, over and over again. Rias began to wake up with difficulty and saw that she was in her room but she couldn't recognize the silhouettes next to her due to her blurry vision.
"She's waking up, give her space." When the red-haired girl regained consciousness she saw Akeno, Kiba, Koneko, Issei, Sona and Grayfia standing around her bed.
"What happened? How did I get here?" Rias asked in pain, it hurt especially near one of her eyes.
"Miss Rias, Miss Akeno found you in the middle of the sea a few minutes from the port with a wound on the side of your head near your left eye." Grayfia took a mirror and showed Rias a cut that extended from her eye to behind her ears, that left her in shock.
"That's where Benja shot me," the shocked redhead whispered. She was just a few centimeters away from being shot directly in the head. But she didn't realize that the whisper was loud enough for everyone to hear.
"I'm going to ask everyone to please leave the room, I want to speak alone with Miss Rias." Grayfia said in a calm but serious tone. Everyone nodded before leaving the room leaving Rias with the gray haired girl. The silence seemed so absolute, that if someone dropped a pin, it would be heard with absurd clarity.
"Grayfia."
"What happened today was the most outrageous and also the most terrible thing I witnessed, Miss Rias." Grayfia interrupted before looking at Rias sternly.
"Your parents did not raise you to make decisions like that. Forcefully turning someone into your servant, emotionally and psychologically manipulating them. Those are not things you were taught." The woman said seriously but that bothered Rias.
"What do you know? You don't know anything. I know perfectly well what I was doing, I could have kept Benja in my hands if it weren't for Sona and Akeno who can't keep their big mouths shut." The red-haired girl said venomously looking at the woman in front of her.
"But that doesn't give you the right to the actions you caused. Forcibly turning a being into a devil is not acceptable and much less responsible." Grayfia said sternly causing Rias to roll her eyes.
"You're just my brother's bootlicker, you don't have the slightest idea of what it's like to be tied down to a marriage and the chance I had to be free, he just went with a bunch of bitches to the other side of the world!" Rias shouted angrily looking at Grayfia who seemed to have a hard time keeping her seriousness.
"Miss Rias. I'm not going to continue this discussion if we can't come to a conclusion where a verbal and physical conflict doesn't break out." The woman turned and walked to the center of the room.
"I will report this to Sirzechs-sir. Sir Riser was kind enough to forgive this misconduct and said that he will agree to participate in the ranking game with you and the other current members of your clan. However, I will wait until you recover and have made a decision to decide whether or not the game will take place." A magic circle appeared beneath Grayfia who looked at Rias sternly.
"Miss Rias. I took the liberty of leaving Miss Akeno in charge of your recovery, and for that, I requested that all contact with Mr. Benjamin be cut off, not only for your sake, but also, for his as well. And because of that, you are completely forbidden to associate in any way with Mr. Benja until your brother makes the final decision about you." With that said, Grayfia left the room, leaving Rias alone.
The red-haired girl was furious. She couldn't believe the things that happened today and how everything came to light. She hated Akeno, Sona, and even the others for not supporting her when I started to confront her, that filled her with more anger that only increased the fire in her.
"Benjamin. I will drag you back to Kuou, even if it's the last thing I do." Rias said coldly, clenching her fists in anger.
What was supposed to be a half hour or fifteen minute trip, Tracer decided to make it a slow and relaxing trip so getting to Metropolis would take three to four hours. During the trip, I stared into space hugging my knees in silence thinking about how stupid, irresponsible and naive I was. Emily, Lena, Reinhardt, Ana, Miia, Asia, most of the girls tried to support me but I didn't feel good in the least, especially with my Overwatch family. Tracer and Emily wanted explanations, I know, and then it would be Amelie, Mei, Junko, Ilarri, but then what? Kara, Zatanna, Carol, Barbara, Momoyo, Junko, Eliza, Nefera, Widowna, Jack, Lucio, Hal, Carter, Heath, Garth, Clark, Vitale, Big Band. They were all going to ask for explanations which for me was like daggers to the heart.
"Papi can sit with you?" I looked up and saw the aripia girl in front of me. Unlike the others, except for Emily and Tracer who were piloting, Papi was awake.
"Papi, it's late. You should be asleep." I said looking at the girl while I was trying to wipe my tears.
"I'm worried. We all tried to cheer you up but nothing works." Papi said before sitting next to me.
"You don't love us anymore?" When I heard that question I was very surprised.
"What!? Papi, don't say that, why do you think that?" I asked surprised looking at the girl.
"You were crying all day. Mom tried to cheer you up, Miia's mom, Miia, Centorea, Mero, and even the bearded man and the woman with the eye patch." Papi said pointing at the two adults who were sleeping together making me laugh a little.
"Their names are Reinhardt and Ana, Papi." I said smiling before sighing in defeat.
"I feel useless. I'm a mess." I said sadly making the girl stare at me.
"I can't do anything right. When I came to Kuou I wanted to investigate a case to save innocent lives, but I failed at that, I didn't protect Issei when he was killed and I turned into a devil. Then I met Asia, and because of me she was kidnapped, they killed her in front of me and then Rias turned her into a devil. Everything she touched she ruined." I slowly began to shed more tears trying not to cry to wake everyone up.
"And now, I find out that my "friends" were never really my friends. They were just pretending, Rias pretended, I never had any friends. They only saw me as a weapon, an object nothing more, they only wanted me as a servant, not as a friend." I felt like I was going to cry at any moment but then I saw Papi put one of his claws in my hand and then squeeze it gently.
"Not everything you touch you ruin, look at me, look at Suu and the other girls. We all met you thanks to you being a demon and we got to meet you." The harpy girl smiled before looking me in the eyes.
"I was scared at first when they were going to kill us, but you protected us no matter the cost, you let us fight by your side, you care about us at all times. Do you remember when we became your family? You opened your heart to us and offered us a home even though we barely knew each other, and look!." Papi searched through his clothes until he showed Draculaura's necklace.
"Papi didn't break his promise, I'm taking care of the necklace you gave me with great care and appreciation." I was very surprised to hear the Harpy girl speak this way, but above all, to remember everything she lived through despite her bad memory.
"I don't think you're bad. You're amazing just the way you are. You're kind, gentle, kind and you get scared for our safety, that doesn't make you useless, it makes you special, you're special to Suu, to mom, to everyone and even to me." Papi showed me a beautiful and bright smile looking me in the eyes.
"Benja. You are amazing, you are our friend, and we are your family." The girl said with a huge smile.
I couldn't hold it in any longer and hugged Daddy tightly, bursting into tears on his shoulder. The girl was very surprised and blushed, but then she smiled before hugging me with her wings, a soft and comforting hug that made me feel safe.
"Daddy. I will never regret the day I met you, neither you nor the girls. I swear with my heart, that when we get to Metropolis, we will have a lot of fun together." I said smiling, making the Harpy girl smile.
"Yes, fun for Suu and me!" Daddy shouted with a smile, making me laugh. We both didn't see it, but secretly, everyone watched the scene with a smile and with small tears.
"My girl is quite a woman." Fei said with tears of happiness seeing her daughter with me laughing.
"Attention passengers, and sweetheart." We all turned to see Tracer.
"We're almost at Overwatch, prepare to land." Lena said with a smile as we all watched as we approached Metropolis.
"Benja." Reinhardt was about to speak but he noticed that I turned to look him in the eyes.
"I know you're all going to want explanations." I said seriously looking back at the base that was a few meters away.
"It's going to be hard. But, my real family needs to know." I said looking at everyone with a weak smile.
Everyone smiled back as I saw the landing port not far away. I knew the things that were going to happen, I knew everything that would happen. My heart was still broken by everything, but there was no turning back now. Yes, I'm terrified and I might want to fly away, but what Reyes told me calmed me down. No more secrets, now was the time to speak the truth. As it should have been from the beginning.
That's it for today's chapter, dear readers. I hope you liked it and I also hope you're enjoying this High School DxD marathon as much as the other stories.
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